[…]d about five o'clock in the evening, the word came around that they were going to work late, working late meant working till 10 or 11 o'clock. So the assistant director would come around and take names and addresses of everybody amongst the extras. And of course, the crew. And coaches were organised[…]
[…]s told to report to a young man called Gordon Dines. Gordon Dines much later became a cameraman, and quite successful. But at that time, he was first assistant to a camera man by the name of George Pocknall, I remember his name very well still. Now, my first job was to carry the still camera, which […]
[…] Architectural Association. She began working in British films as an assistant to Art Director Edward Carrick on Lorna Doone (1935). […]
[…]ang me up again, sometime later to start a film called ['Mid-Shipman Easy'?] which was Carol Reed's first film. Because he'd been Basil Deane's first assistant and Basil Deane had gone off to Austria to make ['Whom the Gods Love'], and Carol Reed was given his chance of ['Mid-Shipman Easy']. As it w[…]
[…] going to Make a film. second feature of the WW. Jacob's the Monkey's Paw? Oh, yes. And it was worked out that I could go in as the assistant to the editor, albeit I had never done anything in the cutting room in my life. And the editor whose name I do, they very well, I've got it […]
[…]hings, the accountant behind the window was Robert Clark, and I used to have my cheques paid, he used to shove them through the window at me, and his assistant was Vaughan Dean, they were to go onto bigger and better things.RF: Did you envisage that Robert Clark would end up as the boss.VG: No, I ne[…]
[…]I guess they liked me I was enthusiastic and clearly it was a simple job so I was good at it, you couldn't not be. And I then became a kind of PA, an assistant, I mean more than a PA but a PA’s functions I guess, holding the book in rehearsal and …Rodney Giesler:At Ally Pally still?Roy Fowler: […]
[…]ide that day. We spent an hour on the set of Oliver Twist. Then she took me to lunch, and I spotted one or two big names. She went over to chat to an assistant with Powell & Pressburger to arrange a visit to the Red Shoes set. First we went back to the Oliver Twist set where they were filming a […]
[…] out of the cutting room and sent on location as assistant director. In other words he felt I'd learned enough about […]
[…]e sitting perhaps rather glumly in the common room envious of those who were going to open their own business, or they've been offered a poster as an assistant to some famous photographer or something, and there'd be things on the notice board. And oh, no, don't go for that. Oh, what about that? Oh,[…]
