[…]and I do smile as I go back in time thinking of… in 2004, 2005 I think it was, after we’d opened the film operations in Spain and Italy you know, the worldwide aspects of the Ranks and the DeLuxe as they were known at the time, I sat with the managing director of Kodak worldwide. He was discussing w[…]
[…]lms very well. Great people. William Powell and Ronald Colman, the Englishman with the velvet voice - I didn’t think he was the greatest actor in the world but [he] was very successful. He followed in the footsteps of people like C Aubrey Smith, because they kept their voice [“posh” English] “like t[…]
[…] wish to have a film show every time and I saw the battleship tank. And I thought I, this is what I want to do. And, oh, I bought out Mike, the Cindy world and everything. But then when I was 13, when I was vomits, for I was given a movie camera. I tried to make films with it and everything. And whi[…]
[…], I was not frightened of him because I knew that he's kind, you see, but the ordinary film maker, film technician don't know the David Leans of this world.You're saying he was very remote?He was remote.On the set?Y es.Yes, yes.He was definitely remote.35Was he close...He was, he was very polite, ve[…]
[…]ure that you've got the message interesting, and make it the right balance to say nothing of the fact that POF had a legion of followers all over the world.Unknown Speaker 21:50 And you don't want them to turn away from it thinking that it's it's a hatchet job or anything like that. Anyh[…]
[…] Oh [refers to notes] there seems to be quite a large gap. 45 mins DB: Anyway, [in] ’76, you did one in a series of stories from around the world for a children’s programme. I did one in Australia, you did one in Jamaica. PB-C: West Indies, yes. DB: With Paul Stone. Do you rememb[…]
[…] enough. These has come full circle. Was the man at the Czech film school who trained the director I'm working with a moment of impasse. It's a small world anyway. I naturally was very intrigued by all this and redoubled my efforts to get in the movie business. He promised to do something and then m[…]
[…]od to work with? He knew his stuff? You tell me.No, he did know his stuff. Yes, he knows his stuff, as you know, he’s one of the bestdirectors in the world. And after that I did a film called, well I suppose I did so many.Flash Gordon. I mean I can’t... I did a film with Bette Davis which was v[…]
[…]into film and what films were like at that particular time, what made you feel that way about them?Eddie Dryhurst: Well we're going back to the First World War, around 1916, '17, that period. Well I was a youngster at school and I started going to the movies on Saturday afternoons with my father, an[…]
