[…]h not given an actual premiere per se, David and Jane did a nice job in adding colour to the opening night of PEARL HARBOUR with an “honour guard” of naval cadets lining the staircase leading from the foyer to Screen One to add a little old school Showmanship as it used to be called! They also earne[…]
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[…]sp;Well although we didn’t call our first interview the first one, with David Francis, this is our second interview with archivists from the National Film and Television Archive in the UK.The copyright in this recording is vested in the British Entertainment History Project and the name of the inter[…]
[…]about the boys and the staff. The staff, well my housemaster David Spinney who wrote that letter I just read to you, was actually in the Royal Naval Reserve. He was a tremendously keen naval man and 90% of our history lessons were taken up with describing the tactics of Rodney or Nelson. We l[…]
[…]there was the Army Film Unit yes under Hugh Stuart and Roy bolting.SPEAKER: M8The aria film unit which had John bolting and I remember that the Royal Naval filming it was certainly represented by Russ Lloyd resplendent in a naval uniform as he edited.SPEAKER: F2That's right.SPEAKER: M2Yes handcuffed[…]
[…]ruthless American producers of the old days. Carl Foreman was who I met many years ago. We had a great rapport. He made very interesting films, ganze naval. Only remember the first one he made, and I know he had a varied career at the same time, he was a great human being too, and very imaginative p[…]
[…]staging friends, David Newman, was at all the shots at the time. He was a major and they knew him And also for some reason Olivier was older he was a naval officer, I think was Pepsi adforum hadn't turned up at this point he was in the district. And they all used to go off and get him to travel to m[…]
[…]kind of family?Alan Izod 1:08 My father was, as described in various ways on the birth certificates of the four children in the family as naval pensioner, amongst other things, I forgotten what the others were. And my mother was the daughter of a country family in Scotland who subsequent[…]
[…]t above the gateway into the dockyard. Anyhow, from there and right the way through the war, I was fascinated by the navy, and eventually I went to a naval college at Pangbourne with the idea of going on from there. By the way, during my first term there I saw a film that had been made by a pupil wh[…]
