[…] It certainly had a vitality about it.Jimmy Gilbert: yes, terrific. But In 1947, 48, I was desperately trying to get a job. I wanted a job as a 4 the assistantJohn Taylor: This was when you finished at RADA.Jimmy Gilbert: Before I finished, just trying to make my way, this great ambition was to get […]
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[…]. What was the production like in those early days compared with much later. Did it change much? Not so very much. No, there was still like director, assistant director, and theUnknown Speaker 19:12 and sound seemed to cope quite well. Sound used to cope very well, very well, yes. And of[…]
[…] as far as I can remember Carol Reed was the Assistant and he was doing most of the work. Obviously […]
[…] I was 12 my father moved to manage The Crags in Morecombe and he ran that for ten years so I did my A-levels and almost immediately became a trainee assistant manager. I went for my interview at the Odeon in Morecombe which is the very cinema he opened in 1937.00:06:36 […]
[…]alf, and I did a year as a trainee at the Kodak Institution in Wiltstone near Harrow andlearned the basics of photography. And then I was taken on as assistant camera man by a tempcalled James Hodgson - Jimmy Hodgson - who was, again, an ex news camera man for “TheMarch of Time". And I worked as an […]
