[…]re going, roughly, so you have a vague idea of what you’re going to need… Sure.The answer’s no I’m not taking an accountancy course and we do have an accountant. We have to have an accountant, Third Eye hires in an accountant and you pay that off the budget for doing all these sums, you see.&n[…]
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[…]e were people who had been laboratory technicians. You know, it is only recently that they've imported people like Ray at Technicolor, who are purely accountants. They're not that technicians at all. They're just accountants.Alan Lawson 37:15 But this is, this is the modern trend anyway.[…]
[…] not taking an accountancy course and we do have an accountant. We have to have an accountant, Third Eye hires […]
[…]d always wanted to be a professional if you lived in a small provincial town, the professional people, the lawyers and the dentists and the Chartered Accountants and the estate agents and they were always the people who are respected. And I think my father whilst he was respected always felt that I […]
[…]s happening in every walk of life, in every industry.Should it though, should it?DS: No, it shouldn’t, it... JPH: Quite sad.DS: It’s because the accountants have taken over, that is the trouble, that’s where it’s gone wrong.JPH: Yes, the bottom line.DS: That’s what happened in Thames, that[…]
[…] which is when I was coming out. And although there was a chap called Schechter, I don't know what he did in the film business, I think he was a film accountant/ producer I met, and he offered me a job as 4th assistant on some tiny film he was involved with. But I just couldn't get a ticket at all. […]
[…] all felt you · were achieving something. That's my memories of those days. And at the old BIP Studios we had people who went onto bigger things, the accountant behind the window was Robert Clark, and I used to have my cheques paid, he used to shove them through the window at me, and his assistant w[…]
[…]s known in the late 20’s and the early 30’s as the King of Pantomime and put on spectacular shows at Drury Lane and othertheatres. He was a chartered accountant and I’ve, the family has always been told the story that he was rather full of himself and to the extent that as teenagers when they were a[…]
[…] – you were based at the studio?Y es.And what precisely was your job on the film or in the company?Well, I was secretary to Max and Aubrey. I and the accountant, Tom Curley, were the staff, so there were just the four: two producers and us, and we had offices in Soho Square, 27 Soho Square. They act[…]
