[…] everything. That’s how the business began. I never had an assistant in my life and I went to every country […]
[…]ll Clive Coultass had been appointed as Keeper of Film Programming. Well yes. Keeper of Film Programming the year before and had decided he needed an assistant in this capacity because he had also set up a film loan scheme, a 16 millimeter film loan scheme for universities and to a certain extent fu[…]
[…]f the Bond films. So that was one link up there. The Russian camera side of things in those days, was under a guy called Charles Petters. And his his assistant to him was a guy called Graham Oren. And Charles Peters went back to the cooking days. In fact, in those days, he met his wife, they're call[…]
[…]used to be a little green van in the morning and the blimp would already be on the stage and then the camera would be taken off and I knew one of the assistants, Bob Kindred, who could actually carry the camera and the magazines and believe me they were heavy. And it was fascinating, I loved all tha[…]
[…]and so long as it was good and in tune… it had to be in tune, mind you… I couldn’t stand anything out of tune but… I found working with Musical Directors like Arthur Greenslade and when we had session men in Saturday Club, and programmes like that… I… there was a mutual respect where I never t[…]
[…] Dawson; JR worked with Loudon Sainthill on a musical ‘Bloomer Girl’; at this time JR had been working at Nathan’s costumier and was asked to work as assistant to Roger Furse on The Prince and the Showgirl; they worked at Furse’s home before moving on to Pinewood; JR became friends with Doris Box; f[…]