Interview

[…]utting it in the Trade Union viewpoint, we had a four-man crew to operate what we now do as a one-man job in studios. We had a Sound Mixer. We had an assistant Sound Mixer. We had a senior tape editor and, you know, player and a four-person in any given studio crew and that's, you know, not realisti[…]

Neville Wortman

[…]ment and with Bill Cotton Junior, as he was then, we were the two youngest producers in the BBC.  Because he was a song plugger before he became Assistant Head of Light Entertainment.DARROL BLAKE:  What was your first production?NEVILLE WORTMAN:  My first production was a thing called[…]

Cy Young

[…]f music poster and the local Indie cinema saying be a cinema manager missing recruiting. So I thought I'd have a go at it day. I ended up in a junior assistant manager at the Odeon cinema in Bristol and saw the sound of music for two tears nonstop. But so that's how I got into that pictures that way[…]

Christine Collins

[…]t worked here. There must have been ten or twelve people employed I would think. There were at least three directors and a permanent cameraman and an assistant and so forth. But he was always agentleman when it came to women and he would never tell you off, I mean even if you’ddone something disastr[…]

Eileen Diss

[…]here were 10 designers and two draftsmen and then I became the third. Then Dick Levin came along and brought more designers and he created the design assistant instead of the draftsman so I became a design assistant. It was still pretty hierarchical, you did your bit then moved along, but later on a[…]

F E (Ernie) Diamond

[…]an on the crew now on the director, art director. Oh, yes, IErnie Diamond  19:20  know that. You mean I can't remember Johnny busy but he's assistant john visit. Yeah. Now I'm seeing Johnson says he's a proud, proud,Unknown Speaker  19:28  proud. Gary Payton was a very talented j[…]

Pamela Mann-Francis (nee Mann)

[…]reased so much the production office .Well, I mean, the faxes that come in and the, you know, the production secretary has a computer, and she has an assistant who has a computer, and they have runners, and they have, these, all these departments have exploded like mad. I mean, if you think back to […]
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