[…]to go back to Bush House. And we were going to stick you into the administration. And I was then linked to I was, I was asked to be an administrative assistant. And I thought, it's really quite ridiculous, because the BBC is bureaucracy was unbelievable. And I was asked to read through a file, which[…]
[…]ed customers with films and loaded the cameras. [laughter] I was the boy for all the people who'd bought expensive cameras and then had to get a shop assistant to load them for them and so on. So that, I suppose, was my first original knowledge of photography because we did developing and printing o[…]
[…]g director of British managing director was a man called Jim Parkinson. James Pattinson yes he was. He'd been a salesman and Gurmit all and he's made assistant sales manager and he was made sales manager and then he was made the first British managing director in the United Kingdom and eventually af[…]
[…]autiful countryside in the world. I um...Sidney Cole: You made for London then, did you?Bernard Vorhaus: Yes. And I was offered a job as a production assistant for a company - British Talking Pictures - it was - it was an offshoot, they had Wembley Studios.Sidney Cole: That's right, I remember, yes.[…]
[…]val and music was awesome. This is back in 1975. And not being union person. I didn't have quite the correct credit, as opposed to being a production assistant, I was an assistant to the producer, because that was all right. I quite enjoyed that was a very funny sequence when we were doing First of […]
[…]n Festival, Moscow Festival that is every two years, and sometimes some of the others, so that one travels around to them. And er, we see some of the directors and of course it's a question of keeping one's ear to the ground sort of thing, as to who's making what, and we're all the time looking out […]
[…], to line up the lights on the projectors for them, West End and all well. Do you know this went on regularly. The you the chief projectionist or his assistant would go up to the west end before one of the major answer print shows regularly,Unknown Speaker 1:54:55 he'd be in one of the t[…]
[…]ave the same team of people working with him from one film to the next keep a core team?PS. He did to a certain extent. He always had the same first assistant director, the same production manager. He had the key people, always had them, and I think that paid off, because they knew his ideas and wo[…]
