[…]me do a job for outside companies,Unknown Speaker  23:15  and I joined the majority of film technicians who were freelance, I did films for worldwide, edit films with Kay Mander, Mary Beals, I forgot was that data as director during the war, it was much easier for women to work in the film[…]
[…]rst cataloguing job at IWM was a sort of last hurrah for this kind of technology and I spent months analysing a British propaganda film on the Second World War, called Tunisian Victory, shot by shot. So for every shot even if it was only a couple of feet long, you’d have to write down a sequence num[…]
[…]ney release of GREYFRIARS BOBBY, which had been on the Playhouse’s split, he had used his position as a town councillor to coerce Disney to stage the World Premiere at his Caley Cinema. The trick having worked then probably had emboldened MacLauchlan to do the same dirty on the Odeon just after I st[…]
[…]hers, Chan, of course, who was a regular soldier to all intents and purposes and had been to university and fought with some distinction in the First World War worked for Mick at  Ealing and indeed before then at Gaumont. And it's quite amusing that there was I understand at the old Gaumont &nb[…]
[…]have I ever done to deserve these wonderful opportunities that I got.And further more I was being paid, I’m in Zanzibar, I’m on the other side of the world in an exotic place er I’m getting an allowance and I’m getting a salary. Anyway, what happened then and this is where the luck come into00:18:23[…]
[…]ay, because, I quickly realised that, as an editor you could spend quite a lot of time with your children; if they were ill, it wasn’t the end of the world if the editor wasn’t there, and things like that. As a director, you had to be there from seven in the morning regardless or the whole film came[…]
[…]d nurse Williams came in and she confiscated my presumably I wasn't allowed chocolate. He said but I mean that really was sort of like the end of the world. But as I was concerned, I can remember that very clearly. I can also remember going back when they finally after whatever period was I know som[…]
[…] playing a "biddy." And from then on I was an actor - a very bad one, by the way, I think - but I was an actor right up 'til I went into the army for World War One, when I was seventeen. Then I was in France for over a year, fighting Germans. Then I came back, and I had no profession. So I went on t[…]
[…]Roy Fowler: What other devices have you invented - pioneered?Vernon Sewell: Well, I invented a gyro stabiliser, because in 'The Edge of the World' which I did with Mickey there was a lot of sea stuff, you see. And I made a gyro stabiliser out of an airship automatic pilot, but the gyros we[…]
[…]prep school I went to a prep school called Neville Holt which was near market harbour. An absolutely ideal spot totally isolated from the rest of the world on a hill. Surrounded by the most beautiful countryside etc. etc. It was an idyllic place to be a lot of people hated it because the headmaster […]
