[…] I was secretary to Max and Aubrey. I and the accountant, Tom Curley, were the staff, so there were just […]
[…]other story Lew Thornburn told was the premiere and I think it was at the Leicester Square Theatre, and they had all seen the film. Lew was assistant accountant earning about fifty bob a week or something like that. There was a camera assistant who may also have been Hungarian, I don't know his name[…]
[…]k quite a few knocks in your Ronald Neame 1:22:56 business. Oh, yes, it was it was tough. But then the man that was put an accountant was put in for the debtors for the for the creditors. And the it was rather a nice young man. I forgotten his name now. But he said, Look, […]
[…] is somehow or another. The film maker isn't always a good person to run a film company.SPEAKER: F16You often have to have a hard nosed dour Scottish accountant to actually point out that you've got to we've got to make a given return on capital invested in movies and things which you must do no goo[…]
[…]ized and up to date when we made made the film in the studio. So that's all I recommend. Recollect, I didn't meet many people there. They were mostly accountants, as you know, the studio also was run by accountants. Yes. Robert Clark, yes, everybody.Speaker 1 44:30 But you must have thin[…]
[…]ou were born, and your childhoodKay Mander: Yes, I was born at 194 Marlborough Avenue, Hull, and it was 1915 - September 1915 - my father, who was an accountant, was working for an American company which had foundries and various plants in England and all over Europe. In Hull they had a large - thei[…]
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[…]twelve, thirteen million pounds by 1948, which was the point at which Arthur got out of the business more or less as an individual and John Davis the accountant, the Green Shade people, the Green Eyeshade People took over.But I was going to say about the two people, these two extraordinarily vain di[…]
[…]wright. Here was Brian Tesler. Here was Bill Ward, and here was I, four programme people met, and the only one…it was only later when the Accountants came in and the Sales Directors came in as Managing Directors that the discussions about programmes came to an end. The Managing Dir[…]