[…]nto a fil: 3. I also read the scripts and story ideas which were sent in. I did this for several months and then went onto the floor as a superronary assistant. My very first job was to be the sea. This was in a film called 'The House of Unrest' which was directed Co Leslie Howard Gordon who was the[…]
[…] at that time, and he went over there as an assistant director, or producer, I don't know what he was but […]
[…]s much more qualified than me, a guy called Malcolm Dunbar I think it was at the time, so I then took the BBC one, so I went into radio as a trainee, assistant, studio manager I think we were called … NS Could be. JG … and that was it. AL Was there a course, or did they give you … ?&n[…]
[…] the production manager and a chap called Dixon was the assistant director who was larger than life. He was a great […]
[…]I started as a sound recordingengineer.Roy Fowler: What - is there anything in between? I've got that you went to Nettlefold in 1929 as a camera assistant, what had you done...?Vernon Sewell: I was an engineer!Roy Fowler: An engineer, that's what you'd studied?Vernon Sewell: I wa[…]
[…] nothing that would suit you, nothing that you'd like I don't think at the moment. The only thing we've got is a chap in motion pictures who wants an assistant". And I said "Well for heaven's sakes, that's exactly the sort of job that I asked you to look for!" "Oh" they said, "alright well anyhow he[…]
[…]hat their competitor is somebody who is already making the tea and doesn't have a degree, and he'd be making it three years this time, he moved on to assistant editor or something, and editors, other than in our game videotape, it's a knack which one out of six children might have. I know, two out o[…]
[…]mebody. They liked the idea that I was at Unity Theatre ‘cos they were quite left wing themselves and it was a co-operative and they took me on as an assistant director! TD: Do you remember which year this was? AY: No, I can’t remember years at all. TD: 30’s or […]
[…] A PA in those days was in fact the director’s assistant, not behind a typewriter but actually in organising filming, […]
