[…]n Dillon: And so I stayed in Wembley for a long, long time.Sidney Cole: What was your actual title? What was your job?Carmen Dillon: By then I was an assistant art director.Sidney Cole: Yes.Carmen Dillon: Almost immediately. Because I had to get it set into it. But I had a very dear little man who w[…]
[…]he name of the famous one? Nathan Thomas, yes, he was around. Yes, they that was, I didn't know much about this till after the war, when I became the assistant construction manager, and I was concerned with the budgets, and heard and sat in on the meetings and things, and I didn't realize that it wa[…]
[…]rent languages. I was there for a very short time because then I got offered an editingjob which was of more interest to me, obviously. Well, editing assistant job with... onsome second features, made by a company that only lasted for the two films, with Ben Arbeid and Alan Cullimore. Alan Cullimore[…]
[…]in mind that I could do shorthand typing and I would be useful to Donald Carter. He assigned me to Donald Carter's office and I worked with him as an assistant. Which meant I typed all his scripts, helped him in the cutting room, helped him arrange locations and - you know, arranged his trains and f[…]
[…] was going around at that time, it was called the assistant director's lament: What shall I do, What shall I do, […]
[…] second runner, and first runner, and then I was lucky, I went to work for Disney as their runner. And they gave me the opportunity to become a third assistant. And that's, I was a third assistant there, and then the whole studio system crumbled. And we all went freelance. So that's the sort of begi[…]
[…]one else's photographs because it appealed to me because it was quite a creative job so I pestered the life out of the Film Editors and eventually an Assistant Film Editor's job came up and I got it so I stayed there for a time which was great. I: What programmes did you work on? R: Well, […]
[…]ther films there. While I was up there, they also had the Oxford Film Unit. And we made a film and I was the editor. I was meant to be the assistant director, but unfortunately I did something to my finger and was in bed while they were shooting. But it was called the Legend of[…]
[…]rtly after my visit to see this film a vacancy occurred in the sound department so I was whisked away for a formal interview. The job was to be sound assistant/playback operator, work to which I was well accustomed from my domestic cinema. So I was delighted when I was told I could start the followi[…]
[…] also worked on … I am talking about as an assistant director now … on things like title sequences , because […]
