behp0445-arthur-wooster-summary
[Rekeyed from an old print-out based on notes by Manny Yospa. These are mostly names and titles and the interview may not run completely chronologically. I have corrected errors where I could. DS]
SIDE ONE
[Born?] Wembley, father a butcher near Wembley Studios, end of war, working for Crown [Film Unit]; [Henry] “Chic” Fowle, 1945 16 years old; Cumberland Story; Dustin Buck; Pinewood; conscript, RAF; Beaconsfield; Berlin airlift; instrument repairer; posted near home; Godfrey Jennison, Bob Angell; Dickie Martin; Film Partnership; Esavian Door; Teddy Catford; Henry Geddes; Ronny Stark; stranded in Egypt; Singapore 1948; Man of Africa; Cyril Frankel; Frank Bryce; Pat Leese; Great Portland Street; Michael Johns; Stock Exchange; Passport to Europe; Richard Dimbleby; Bill Cabaret(?); accountant; 1958: Mayflower; Erica Masters, Hong Kong, John Armstrong; Shell; left Film Partnership; Mekong; Lionel Cole; 1962/3 Features. 1976 Freelance with own equipment, Sidney Samuelson; Anthony Gilkinson; Laurie Hardie-Brown; Michael Evans; Mike Gascoyne; Terry Twigg, Shirley Cobham, David Cobham, early ‘70s Munich Olympics; Visions of Eight; Schlesinger.
SIDE TWO
Peter de Normanville; frozen Arctic; Pipeline Alaska; Michael Evans; Vulture; Group 3; Commercials; Roly Stafford; Alvin Bailey; Shirley Cobham; Pan-Am; Ben Harrison; Video Arts, John Cleese; Charles Creighton [Crichton?]; Peter Robinson; John Spencer; Aspect Productions; Lee Lighting 1970s; Jack Howells; Dylan Thomas; Queen Mary’s funeral; 3D; John Schlesinger; Honky Tonk Freeway; Downhill Racer; Le Mans; Robert Redford.
TAPE TWO, SIDE THREE
Peter Bucknall, Athos; Drummond Challis; Worldmark; Canterbury Cathedral; David Wooster; Tony Mailham; Prince Charles; Joan Sutherland; Domingo; American films credits; Commanding Sea :Michael Gill; Claire Francis; Papua New Guinea; CGI [Computer Generated Images]; Shakespeare in Love; Schleiron; The Plank; Rhubarb; present day photography; computers; Geoffrey Rush; Twelfth Night.
SIDE FOUR
[Ann Wooster from right channel to left]
Johnnie Dark; Kevin Connor; Peter Ormerod; Russia; The Gold Rush; Bear Island; Peter Allwork: Helicopter work; Fred Zinnemann; Five Days one Summer; 1952. Tony Way; James Bond; John Glenn; Terry Madden; Peter Bennet; Blake Edwards: Clouseau; Raise the Titanic; Robin Hood; Christopher Columbus; 1482; Salkind Brothers.
TAPE THREE, SIDE FIVE
Tim; Day of the Jackal; Red Square; Sharpe’s Rifles; BAFTA Award; Tom Clegg; Pete Postlethwaite; Mike Gascoyne; White Rock; Andrew McLaglen; Where There’s a Will; 2nd unit, Director/Cameraman; Michael Apted; The Avengers; Peter Yates.
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