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Cyril Howard
[…];risen from the ranks since I came back, because coming back in 1948 I joined the Secretarial Department as assistant to the company secretary, a rnan called Bill Able, and our ultimate boss was Tim White[…]
Eric Cross
[…]out seven o'clock?Eric Cross: Yes, about half seven.Arthur Graham: What exactly was your job and what were it's duties?Eric Cross: Well, I started as assistant to Eric Grey and then we moved over to Elstree and he left and I was in charge of the Still Department.Arthur Graham: When you say Elstree i[…]
ARMSTRONG, Moira BECTU copy
[…] A PA in those days was in fact the director’s assistant, not behind a typewriter but actually in organising filming, […]
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[…] Service in the army. In 1952 he joined Technicolour as Assistant Assembly Editor working with the three matrices. This was […]
Peter Williams
[…] we did. And as I say.. you talk about falling on your feet, and I fell on my feet! I had a skilled, ex-film cameraman called Bob, and an experienced assistant, and a very experienced sound man called Ben Brightwell. And they would come in in the morning and say, ‘What are we going to do now’. Well […]
Russell Galbraith
[…]d in its way, say filmicly, could be shot by a camera man but if it was a talking head that was gonna run for five minutes, it needed a cameraman, an assistant cameraman, a director, a production assistant, perhaps an electrician, even, before long, a stagehand and in the, with the passage of time, […]
Moira Armstrong
[…]So I applied naturally because I was interested in, in, you know, I’d learnt an awful lot being a PA.Mm.A PA in those days was in fact the director’s assistant, not behind a typewriter but actually in organising filming, doing the studio floor, helping with casting, and I was Jim McTaggart’s PA for […]
Kent Houston
[…]d have hangovers and spend too much time in pubs and things. And then my sister, who had come over to Britain in the mid 60s, was working as personal assistant and secretary to an animator called Bob Godfrey, and one day she said to me, Well, if you're not really doing anything, do you want a job as[…]
