[…]t in Mayfair, they had the cutting rooms in the basement. [TIME 00.14.59] So, itwasn’t long before I could go in there to work as a trainee assistant editor actually, because just after I started with Dimitri there had been a young fellow, who you mayknow of, a man called Antony Balch who […]
[…]for RKO and shoots at directing it and showed Zach it was supposed to direct what the film was finally made. But I finally got to be Willis O'Brien's assistant. I showed him a lot of my tests and he and Cooper and they were impressed. And as I say at that time there were not many people interested i[…]
[…]d have hangovers and spend too much time in pubs and things. And then my sister, who had come over to Britain in the mid 60s, was working as personal assistant and secretary to an animator called Bob Godfrey, and one day she said to me, Well, if you're not really doing anything, do you want a job as[…]
[…] fire drills at the theatre every day at one o'clock. And Mr Drage was in a different place every day, the fire shutters would come down and then the Assistant Manager would go and give instructions to the usherettes, "Mr Drage, is..." so that then they opened all the push bars and all that. We had […]
[…]hap, was our production manager. And we had a rather eccentric Norwegian called Rolf Popp, that's P-O-P-P, who was the first, no second, sorry second assistant, Michael Johnson, whom everybody remembers, was the first assistant, Rolf Popp was the second. Billy Herlihy, H-E-R-L-I-H-Y was the third, h[…]
[…]t,Noreen Ackland 15:09 Oh, I did with Mickey because he used to come into the cutting room and sit and talk. And being the only being the assistant that ready had chosen. He, it always took me in the theatre to take notes. Yes. You know, I suppose he trained me and he'd got used to me. A[…]
[…]think he thought it was going to be of a professional standard. And anyway we didn't get the job we hopped we'd get through it. I wanted to become an assistant assistant assistant. But in fact there were better positioned people, Michael Berkitt was, got in that way, and so did Pevson, Nicholas Pevs[…]
[…] in 1914, and eventually went to Hampton, which was Hampton grammar school. And in this, just before the school holidays, 1928 I was offered a job as assistant to the stills camera man at Whorton Hall. And I said, Fine, you know, this was for the school holiday period. And I went over there on a Sat[…]
[…] about "Evergreen" at all?Peter Birch : My favourite memory about "Evergreen" was one big set we had, and the floor was newly polished. And the first assistant director came charging across that floor, footsteps every inch of the way and Saville went mad. What was his name, it'll come, but I can't r[…]
