The Cine Technician (1943 - 1945)

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.lay— June, 1943 THE CINE-TECHNICIAN 53 ays, for creating a mood or communicating an smotion, and from then on he saw every German ilm he could and his interest grew more and nore. Well, shortly after leaving Oxford, and )efore anything definite had been decided, Tony uherited a small legacy from his grandfather and nade up his mind to spend it on a trip to America . 3o off he set, armed with a batch of introductions, aid in the end spent six months over there, three >f them, naturally enough by now, in Hollywood. 3e had a fine bunch of introductions and made some very good friends in Hollywood. * Most of die time he stayed with Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, whom he found lively and charm ng. He met Lilian Gish and watched her at work m her current film The Scarlet Letter, which was Deing directed by the great Swedish director Victor Seastrom. Poor old Seastrom was very nuch a ■ fish out of water in Hollywood though le did later make a very fine film The Wind. All in all Tony had a very enjoyable time in Hollywood and was fascinated by all he saw, and the result was he came back to England determined to look for a job in the film business. Easier said than done, even for (or perhaps particularly for) somebody with introductions. He'd written a few scripts already and he used to tout these round with him, but nobody seemed to think much of them until finally he showed them to Bruce. Woolfe, who was then Production Manager of Stolls at CricMewood. Desert Victory— (conclude d from page si) advance and retreat. Throughout the eighty days. of forced march, over fourteen hundred miles, they kept up with the Army, travelling as selfcontained units in trucks or jeeps and sending back to base their records of the rearguard actions fought by the remnants of Pommel's army. On January the 23rd at 5.00 a.m., the Eighth Army entered Tripoli, and cameras turned on the ceremonial entry of the pipers of the 51st Division . . . F/U Pipes "Bonnie Dundee" and Hold Behind: Narrator: . . , . . followed by General Montgomery's review of his victorious army. F/O Pipes : Narrator : Desert Victory, the record of a great army on the move, ends there. But the closing shot is not of the parade through the city but of tanks, infantry, artillery on the move again — westwards. Xow thanks to the military training, the courage and the film experience of Army cameramen, Britain, and the world, can see the magnificent achievement of the Eighth Army. Up " Lillibullero " : Peak and Out: Bruce Woolfe thought there was something to them and on the strength of them took Tonj on as general assistant. Genera] assistant in those days meant general assistant all right, and covered everything from driving the unit about to doubling for the stars. The first picture Tony worked on was Sinclair Hill's Boadicea, and he had to double for Lilian Mall Davies. It must have been quite a sight to see him and Cyril Maclaglen, who was doubling for Phyllis Neilson Terry, tearing along in an ancient British chariot with their blonde curls streaming out behind them in the wind. Meanwhile he had written another script and sent it in to Bruce Woolfe. It was a story somewhat on the lines of The Student of Prague (written before he'd seen that fine film) about a man who can detach his reflection from himself and send it out to do murders. The milieu was a cheap lodging house (such as, today, Hitchcock might use) and the end of the film was to show the man make a slip up and get killed by his own reflection. The final shot would show him sitting dead in a chair, whilst in the mirror his reflection stood beside it. He still thinks it would have made a good film, and in fact Bruce Woolfe very nearly gave the O.K. — but not quite. At last, however, he sent in the script of Shooting Stars, and that was put into production. F. Bramble was put on to direct it, as HIGHEST POSSIBLE PRICES OFFERED for 16mm PROJECTORS SOUND & SILENT ALSO 8 mm and 9.5 mm PROJECTORS We are also offering exceptional prices for LEICAS, CONTAXES, KORELLES and similar Miniature Cameras and all Accessories and Lenses for these. Prices for all the above are probably now at their peak, so now is the time to sell. You can rely on us for a fair and square deal. City Sale & Exchange Est. 1870 (1929) LTD. 2 POULTRY, CHEAPSIDE. EC. 2 PHONE: CITY 1124