[…]ome. John was awesome, John. Yeah. Which, in fact, my parents thought was a marvellous idea. And my starting in the film industry was going to be the assistant manager of the Kerr? Odeon, which wasn't exactly the career movie. So doubtless, I would have been a very rich and successful gentleman have[…]
[…]had reinstatement rights. I think it was six months they had to – I am not certain but I think it was 6 months. I came back there as boom assistant. I had been doing some camera operator work before then but I didn’t like it. Some camera work you are in a room away from the s[…]
[…] David Cunningham, the production manager at London Film Studios, who interviewed me and said, yes, they might be prepared to take me on as a trainee assistant editor at a salary of two pounds 10 a week, which was absolutely riches beyond me, very good in those days. Needless to say, the film never […]
[…] them off the ground, and they took on a couple of extra lads and I showed them the ropes and then I moved onto the floor as a 'cable monkey' or boom assistant, as you will remember. And I spent most of the rest of the time at Pinewood as a boom assistant.Alan Lawson : Can you remember who you were […]
[…] I'd met Mickey Anderson as, I think he was second assistant director on 'French Without Tears' - second or third. And […]
[…]ed to go and earn some money so I had to leave. Got as many part-time jobs as I could and, eventually, saw in the Glasgow Herald an advert for Camera Assistant in the Educational Television Service. But it was coming up in eighteen months time. The same advert was also looking for Lab Assistants and[…]
[…]ard to deal with when you’re not confident. But nevertheless, he was brilliant, you had to recognise, and he was fun. It was wonderful to work with a director like that. Cecil Beaton did the sets for The Winter’s Tale.[15] So every aspect of it was quite superb, really.JR: And it was a sort of ‘onwa[…]
[…]at's great. Jonathan Balcon 37:57 And he had of course, we must go back a bit now let's go back to "39 Steps" at Gaumont. One of the assistant directors at "39 Steps", on "39 Steps" was Pen Tennyson, now Pen I suppose was the nearest thing I had to a brother in as much as my father,[…]
[…] of dates on film a bit and we see it coming up. So Charlie said OK so Charlie with director and cameraman the second the second rejectionist. He was assistant director and I was general dog's body kinda lights. And generally humping stuff around. And on one one occasion Charlie said. We're going ac[…]
[…] as far as I can remember Carol Reed was the Assistant and he was doing most of the work. Obviously […]
