[…]e personality of these people. They had no reason to feel hard done by because they were all on a fairly good living. Even the technical workers, the assistant directors, a reasonable comparatively good living. But they all had personality which I didn’t know. My granny had it in retrospect, but mos[…]
[…]aving party said that I was probably the person who invented this step up for female staff between the typing pool and the continuity girl production assistant is now called, and getting somewhere more creative. I was nearly thrown out several times the bluerinse, ladies in BBC staff appointments, a[…]
[…]ed customers with films and loaded the cameras. [laughter] I was the boy for all the people who'd bought expensive cameras and then had to get a shop assistant to load them for them and so on. So that, I suppose, was my first original knowledge of photography because we did developing and printing o[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]s and then went, yes, about two years, I suppose. And then went down to Lime Grove where we all went is you working with Mary Sue? I was Mary Field's assistant here. And also she was no in the cutting room. I was General was, cutting herself. Yes.Margaret Thompson 6:09 She did. As I reme[…]
[…] road didn't heRon Hill 29:45 had he not for the weekend to Prince's so I came I came here. Overtime I got there at five o'clock. See the assistant taken a bit good Lord enjoyed him while I was driving around with any mortgage off first the prism was whatAlf Cooper 30:23 was […]
[…] introduction to those people in the business, I went to the Islington Studios one morning where it so happened they were starting a new film and the assistant camera hadn't turned up on that day so they took me on, just like that.Wyn Ryder: When was that, what date about?Reggie Beck: I do[…]
[…] myself wo rking at the Warner, Leicester Square, as an assistant. Getting the same money but no responsibility. Then he […]
[…] found myself working at the Warner, Leicester Square, as an assistant. Getting the same money but no responsibility. Then he […]
[…] had, and the floor was newly polished. And the first assistant director came charging across that floor, footsteps every inch […]
