[…]ision, where I spent nearly a year at Norwich on a contract. That contract ran out and I joined the BBC in 1962 as a holiday relief cameraman - as an assistant cameraman.Interviewer 2:24 Okay, where were you living? How did you get to and from work?Michael Aldridge 2:30 Well,[…]
[…]not an historian. And I was terrified. Absolutely terrified. Anyway we just sorted these out, we sat there and sorted, and I got an assistant, and the assistant was, and has since become famous in television too, Ann Paul. She’s called Ann Paul now but she was Ann Broadway.&n[…]
[…]h we want you in tomorrow," you know and you'd have to come in - all in the pound. I got, let's see - there was a fellow named - I think he's been an assistant director, but he was assistant studio manager, Frank Covern or Frank Cohen as he was then. He's a very nice bloke and I think he's still aro[…]
[…]think acquiring films, that's the thing. [00:19:12] Acquiring and I suppose special versions of them were sent, my job was still various kind of assistant office jobs. [00:19:23] One interesting young chap who was there was Richard Mason, who was writing the, helping write the catalogue of[…]
[…]s and then went, yes, about two years, I suppose. And then went down to Lime Grove where we all went is you working with Mary Sue? I was Mary Field's assistant here. And also she was no in the cutting room. I was General was, cutting herself. Yes.Margaret Thompson 6:09 She did. As I reme[…]
[…] introduction to those people in the business, I went to the Islington Studios one morning where it so happened they were starting a new film and the assistant camera hadn't turned up on that day so they took me on, just like that.Wyn Ryder: When was that, what date about?Reggie Beck: I do[…]
[…] Alan Hewison was my assistant, and Ralph Sheldon was the assistant director. And I was doing jolly well with this camera […]
[…]get very far with it. Yes, I think Peter Watkins seeing that film and talking with Kevin Brownlow, because they were colleagues. Peter Watkins was an assistant editor for Kevin Brownlow for a few years. And I think that he preferred to work with somebody who wasn’t going to bring a lot of baggage of[…]
[…]e personality of these people. They had no reason to feel hard done by because they were all on a fairly good living. Even the technical workers, the assistant directors, a reasonable comparatively good living. But they all had personality which I didn’t know. My granny had it in retrospect, but mos[…]
[…] a continuity girl, a soundman, three Technicolor, myself, Pat, first assistant and property - and this boat was really down […]
