Douglas Slocombe

[…]English unit, and then the other half, really, in Paris, in the in the be encore Studios, where, of course, we had a completely French crew, from the assistant director through to the gaff people like that. I did though have the, have my own camera crew there, but that was intriguing. That also gave[…]

Dicky Leeman

[…] the film industry as child actor before developing into an assistant director at various studios during the 1930s. In 1948 he […]

Peter Tanner

[…]e time. The editor on that series was a girl called Peggy Hennessy who afterwards became in charge of post production at Pinewood and was Tom White's assistant for some time. She was quite young at this time, she was supposed to be one of the youngest editors, one day she comes into the office in a […]

Renee Glynne

[…] go into the film business?RENÉE GLYNNE: Entertainment business, behind stage. I really wanted to be, probably, in the wardrobe of theatre or an ASM [Assistant Stage Manager]. And Iknew that it was going to be theatre and I hadn’t really ... I went to cinemas andsaw films, but I never yearned to do […]

Patrick (Paddy) Carey

[…]nknown Speaker  28:42  44 was it?Paddy Carey  28:45  I think it was actually at the tail end of 43. And I joined them as a camera assistant.John Taylor  28:54  And did you get a job there.Paddy Carey  28:57  My daughter took my photographs along some of them s[…]

billywilliamsbectu-tape3

[…] the first unit director. And the assistant cameraman and the assistant director who were with me 18 years earlier were by […]

Dicky Leeman

[…]y was in the Isle of Wight, when I went on tour in 'Young Woodley'. And we opened in the Isle of Wight, and I played Cope, the 'fag' in it. And I was assistant stage manager as well. And that was quite an opening because in the Isle of Wight in those days, you played - Monday night you opened in Ryd[…]
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