[…]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,[…]
[…] had no idea that you could get a lunch when you worked in films, and we went out to Whipsnade the director driving, and on the way home, he told his assistant His name was sigalle, who later emigrated to Australia, take the car back, and he drove me into the first roundabout. It was he only recentl[…]
[…]ilisation because the world is rich was just starting, which was the successor to world aplenty. And Michael Oren was the editor. And I was to be the assistant but in the end, I didn't get any advancement. But I went down on a date in June I can't remember, got my nice blue suit and my true behat sp[…]
[…]apologise, not Jimmy Wilson, Arthur Grant. And that's where my basic mainstay in my early days in the film industry stayed. I was Arthur Grant's assistant focus puller, and operator for nearly 25 years. Having done 20 odd Hammer Films, two Val Guest pictures and numerous Children’s Film Foundat[…]
[…]in dehavilland in chicken talk design office, no at least. And there was a chicken tool design office drawing office which I was sort of like a lowly assistant, but they used to give me all the sort of trigonometrical problems to work out because I was good at that. And you know, I would be able to […]
[…] film. He was about, really, the only Sound Editor there was because in those days the editor dubbed his own, did his own laying of tracks.LH: Or the assistant would do it. He’d make up a loop. Because soundtracks were pretty primitive weren’t they?WR: Yes. But post-syncing in those days was very co[…]
[…] he said, Well, would you like to work at the GPO. I said, Oh my God, we don't have to do. He said well, we look we're looking for some sort of young assistants, you know. So I said, Well, what about college and he was my mate. She didn't want to bring him along to sort of Bingo. Next week I was wor[…]
[…]terviewed by Mr Speigel the producer and I was terribly naïve and young and I wouldn’t go unless I was escorted by somebody else around there and the assistant director, Guy Hamilton who was very kind and good would not allow me to go unless he came. So I got selected for that one and I didn’t meet […]
[…]I went to BIP I was living in Mill Hill and I used to get myself from Mill Hill to Elstree by being driven either by David Cunningham who was my assistant, or by John Rinders who was then was the Director of BIP and they were doing an enormous amount of scoring of their early silent films and J[…]
[…]ngworth who did Upstairs Downstairs, what was his name?Hawkesworth.Yes. He was very nice, he was trained there. I worked with him, but he was an assistant art director, he was, he was Vincent’s assistant, that's right. He was Vincent’s assistant. And then there were the Korda children came up, […]
