[…]shattered by this because I was, "I'm not going back to being a pageboy!" So after a discussion they found out that A.W. Robinson, who was the studio accountant would take me into the accounts department. So I went back to Lime Grove into the accounts department. There I was fairly disruptive with a[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 367[Copyright BECTU] Transcription Date: 2003-11-18Interview Date: 1995-09-22 Interviewers: Rodney GieslerInterviewee: Dicky Leeman Tape 1, Side 1Rodney Giesler: This is an interview with Dicky Leeman, by Rodney Giesler, in Bognor Regis. It'[…]
BEHP transcript DisclaimerThis transcript has been produced automatically using Speechmatics.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of the content of this[…]
[…]n. But he was, again, he was an entrepreneur you see, all these chaps were. They were not movie- makers.Roy Fowler: No, no, no. They were either accountants or solicitors, weren't they?Vernon Sewell: The only real movie-makers were the Kordas, they were the only real movie makers, and, per[…]
[…]n – Hazeltine Analyser Model C; the building was decrepit at the time; they were always three steps behind in equipment; Lesley Oliver; Jeff Bridge – accountant took over when JJ left; they couldn’t compete with Technicolor or Rank; all the Minder series, Danger Unexploded Bomb and World at War were[…]
[…]course. It was with a small cooperative unit called DATA, DATA Film Unit. And I was taken on, really, in the first place, as a production manager and accountant, again because I could add up a row of figures, which not everybody can—although I wanted to be a technician. INTERVIEWER: Who w[…]
