[…]very much so. I'd done a lot to get me kickstarted. And I wanted obviously in my final year I started applying for jobs and I applied for the Trainee Assistant Producer scheme in London BBC and also a Trainee Assistant Editor. I did an interview in Manchester for BBC Manchester as an Assistant Edito[…]
[…] you know you went to primary school with and what have you we're quite happy. My father was a professional musician. Ted Anstey. His name was he was Assistant General Secretary of the musicians union in the end. And I was taught the violin. And through the violin, I won a special talent scholarship[…]
[…]n Keys [Anthony Nelson Keys] was the PM [Production Manager] and I don't know how but I suppose through Norman Lee's influence I got a job as the 3rd assistant. That had Betty Fields playing the lead, Redd Davis was the director, the studio was then run by Norman Loudon and Maggie was his secretary.[…]
[…] "Dear Mr Dickinson, I have a young son, blah blah." You know. And as luck would have it Stoll Studios at that time were looking for a trainee camera assistant and the letter came back and said, "Send him up." And I went up to Stoll Studios and I saw Dickie, Dickinson and that was it. It was just sh[…]
[…]. What was the production like in those early days compared with much later. Did it change much? Not so very much. No, there was still like director, assistant director, and theUnknown Speaker 19:12 and sound seemed to cope quite well. Sound used to cope very well, very well, yes. And of[…]
[…]rked at Thames with my husband, Ashton Gorton, I was talking to him, he said “Oh, Jocelyn was still doing the Antonioni thing” Blow Up and she had an assistant, Ruth Myers, who she never liked and, for some reason, I don’t know how I got it, but I somehow managed to be Jocelyn’s assistant in the las[…]
[…]levision Service]. I: Oh, they were in Bath Street! R: Bath Street, 151 Bath Street. And that was a fantastic place and I joined them as an Assistant Engineer and the duty of an Assistant Engineer was to be in the VTR [Video Tape Recorder] area so they'd be playing in, they broadcast via a[…]
[…]Friday said, What are you doing? I said, what I'm just packing up, I'm finishing, he said, Do you want a job? I said, naturally, and I became Fred as assistant on another Children's Foundation picture, but it was the very first of the independent frame pictures. And it was only really a tryout for i[…]
[…] to do it. And some of them were interested. Maurice Oakley, whom you probably remember, was a professional feature focus puller, or whatever, and an assistant cameraman, anyway in features. I don't know the sort of full details of features in those days, because I was never in it. And, um, he was a[…]
[…]lopment section - we used to develop the negative and make the first print, that's all - there was a chap called Turnpenny was the foreman, I was his assistant, there was a fellow called Wood and a fellow called Chambers, who used to do the drying - there was just the four of us, that's all. Well, t[…]
