Marjorie (Sullivan) Graham

[…]diffusion, who got the week time week day contract. So she encouraged me to apply to them. And I did so in the August and I got a job as a production assistant. I didn't really know what that was. But my friend Hazel said, it's an interesting job. And you'll be doing something different every day. A[…]

Tim Emblem - England

[…]th A Levels and I joined the meteorological office, first off. I’d always had an interest in the weather and weather forecasting so I got a job as an assistant scientific officer with the Met Office and was posted to their headquarters in Bracknell, as it was then, and I found myself in the departme[…]

Roy Lockett

[…]the president of the union then was Anthony Asquith who was a very prominent film maker, he was kind of second only to Hitchcock really as an English director in the Thirties and was very active and of course, he came from that patrician political family the Asquith family so he had friends in high […]

Brian Marshall

[…]nyways, I was there I learned quite obviously quite a lot. I used to run the sound camera. That was my main job, but obviously it's also your general assistant. I picked up you know, began to learn about filmmaking and what was involved. off after a couple of years, I spent about two or three years […]

Graham Hartstone

[…] it, the interview was probably a bit of a formality. So low and behold, I've got a job. starting in I think it was September 61 as a boom operator's assistant at the princely sum of seven pounds a week. And I started on a film called "Waltz of the Toreadors". The mixer was John Mitchell. The boom o[…]

Cornel Lucas

[…]fteen and he said ‘I think you should leave school and I’ve got a position for you at George Humphries lab’. And I said ‘what is it?’ and he said ‘an assistant in a laboratory for processing film.NA: So was this connected to the film industry were they processing film publicity stills or?CL: Oh no, […]
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