[…] 'The Lion Has Wings' and then what? Vernon Sewell: The assistant director came to me and said, "Telephone for you, Mr […]
[…] Cecil Dickson. Now tell me about Cecil, he was the assistant director, was he? Tilly Day: Oh yes, yes. Oh he […]
[…] was directing something at that time; he had been Basil's assistant director for many years, he had been his assistant in […]
[…]in that sense it was great. DB: And from there, where did you go? What happened? PB-C: Well, I freelanced for a time after that as a camera assistant, and I remember working for the National Coal Board, which was interesting stuff… DB: So this was via contacts or an agency? Or the uni[…]
[…]er seeing a lot of documentaries. And one day, he said to me, knowing that I was going to go down again to Jim, listen, I think Mira, Mathis needs an assistant, why don't you apply? And so I did. And he gave me the job, he gave me the job, not because I was qualified to do it, which I certainly wasn[…]
[…]lace like a dose of salts. And that was the whole tenor of the location. We had some very strange characters, some of which disappeared, there was an assistant director called Newman disappeared, and there was a script writer called Bettison, I always remember him, very gentle and he was was known a[…]
[…]jobs at the LCC, temporary jobs as clerk's, so I thought well, I'll take one of those and see what it's like. So I went to County Hall and I was some assistant in a department which all I had to do was to check files and ring up hospitals and check who was sick for replacements and things[…]
[…] and I got sort of o-fay with how things worked which partly made it possible for me to direct when it actually came to it.But before that I had been assistant choreographer to Anton Dolin, my beloved Uncle Pat, on a film called Invitation to the Waltz, with, Lilian Harvey was in and I was in it too[…]
[…]im Hand, that was it, Slim Hand. He went off to Ealing because Michael Balcon had taken over Ealing Studio at that time, and he went over there as an assistant director, or producer, I don't know what he was but anyway he left and so there was a vacancy for a mixer. So Bill Salter went over there an[…]