[…] MGM and Edgar had got me a job as some Assistant Publicity Officer or something. I went along there and […]
[…]ough editing? Well, I hadn't thought of that. And I had no idea how I got into the BBC. But it turned out that there was an advertisement for trainee assistant film editors. SoUnknown Speaker 5:00 I thought well, nothing ventured, nothing gained. And I logged in an application, not think[…]
[…] of getting franchise back was to employ more women so, you know, it was an ideal to have, because when I started there were female P.A.s [Production Assistants], now Tina Wakerell would have been the only female Director, I think, at that time, and I was a female Designer and Morag Torbet was the F[…]
[…] I was 12 my father moved to manage The Crags in Morecombe and he ran that for ten years so I did my A-levels and almost immediately became a trainee assistant manager. I went for my interview at the Odeon in Morecombe which is the very cinema he opened in 1937.00:06:36 […]
[…]to Serials, I stayed in Serials Department.Yes.Yes, because I was, you know, I wasn’t anything really, I was just, you know, still the script, script assistant they called me.Yes, yes.Drama assistant or something.Yes.And then I was approached by not my own department but Series Department and asked […]
[…]rs ago, you walk along do not necessarily offer a job or Hello, how are you? How are you there? Yes, I walked out. I knew one person. Yeah, it was an assistant account. I mean, no one else at all. Which you happen to know without nobody there and there's one person I knew.John Hargreaves 12:34[…]
[…]d go, so I went in fear and trembling, and went to the music department and Jimmy Crawford was there writing music, when I went in CS: He was an assistant to Ernest Irving, UB: Yes there was just the two of them. He very kindly gave me the music that’d got to play. It was for Diana Morgan,[…]
[…]hen this happened and she said, "They're not going to lend you the money." It was about forty thousand or something we wanted, and at that moment the assistant director on the film we were making at that moment popped his head round the door and said, "There's trouble on the floor, will you come dow[…]
[…]936. And I couldn't join the BBC until I was 21. So I applied to the BBC unknown to Harold Kirk who by then was not only chief of research but he was assistant chief engineer. Unfortunately he's dead now. But unknown to him I got an interview and got a job. Whether he found out or not, I don't know.[…]