[…]r this kind gentleman was in fact Jack Lee all right. Yes. Who was directing a film called close quarters.SPEAKER: M5And that was that famous wartime documentary that he directed about the submarines. That's done. That's right. You just chose a good day to go visit didn't you.SPEAKER: M2So then John[…]
[…]nidentified): How did that start?Jill Craigie: I wrote something and sent it in. I was always writing things and sending them in. I wrote some little documentary piece about something or other, I can't even remember what it was, but I got a job on the strength of it.Interviewer (unidentified): And t[…]
[…]crape it off with a piece of hacksaw blade. And I in years after I remember, was working with other directors. One in particular who was a well known documentary director, who used to lick it first off you both know who he was, what you would do, by Tony told you about Arthur EltonFrances Cock[…]
[…]n until - the unit started to break up round about '46...'45/'46. Anyway I was demobbed in '46, in February of 1946. And I immediately went in with a documentary film company, basically, whilst I was in the AKS and making these military films, these military instructional and documentary films, I fo[…]
[…]did get through an awful lot of work.Kitty Wood : Hmm.Jim Connock : Am I right in thinking at that period that probably G-B I were one of the leading documentary firms, or was it just because they were the only ones that I knew shall we say?Kitty Wood : Yes. They were quite a well known firm. Bruce-[…]
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