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[…]tre, it was notUnknown Speaker 6:24 ready to do a three month course where ultimately I would end up at Pebble mill to be a trainee audio assistant. And I have to say, when I landed there, I couldn't believe it. I said, it still seems like a dream to me now. So was the initial BBC job. W[…]
[…]936. And I couldn't join the BBC until I was 21. So I applied to the BBC unknown to Harold Kirk who by then was not only chief of research but he was assistant chief engineer. Unfortunately he's dead now. But unknown to him I got an interview and got a job. Whether he found out or not, I don't know.[…]
[…] then was not only chief of research but he was assistant chief engineer. Unfortunately he's dead now. But unknown to […]
[…]ining up stuff. They had a editor there I think and I did some joining. I used to go to the recording of the commentaries but best of all I became an assistant Arthur Lavers who was the cameraman and he and I would go off together to cover these various things which were required of us. And I rememb[…]
[…]d about five o'clock in the evening, the word came around that they were going to work late, working late meant working till 10 or 11 o'clock. So the assistant director would come around and take names and addresses of everybody amongst the extras. And of course, the crew. And coaches were organised[…]
[…]nknown Speaker 28:42 44 was it?Paddy Carey 28:45 I think it was actually at the tail end of 43. And I joined them as a camera assistant.John Taylor 28:54 And did you get a job there.Paddy Carey 28:57 My daughter took my photographs along some of them s[…]
[…]4, needed a draughtsman. So through my brother I went and got the jobRoy Fowler: How did your brother connect with Alfred JungeMaurice Carter: He was assistant to Alfred Junge on films like xxxRoy Fowler: Although trained as an architect he was in the film industryMaurice Carter: He was a draughtsma[…]
[…]e to see me so I came down and saw john Dennis and, of course, the department was then in the hands of Cyril Crowhurst and he offered their job as an assistant. As a film loader I have to be correct about this as a film loader, which I did. And I joined the studio in I think it was August in 1948. A[…]
[…]lace like a dose of salts. And that was the whole tenor of the location. We had some very strange characters, some of which disappeared, there was an assistant director called Newman disappeared, and there was a script writer called Bettison, I always remember him, very gentle and he was was known a[…]