[…] in the oxygen box light infantry at Cowley barracks near Oxford had to come out of the army because you know in order to support the family I had an assistant older sister and also a younger brother. But you know somebody had to be the breadwinner and so that altered our lives you know quite a bit.[…]
[…] I did four films with them, and was very happy with them too, writing, directing, cutting, the shell unit. Tradition was that a director and an assistant were appointed to a subject, and they investigated it, wrote a treatment, wrote script, got script vetted. Shot, it collected a unit. And, I[…]
[…] moved onto the floor as a 'cable monkey' or boom assistant, as you will remember. And I spent most of […]
[…]istmas, and effectively she didn't come back, but she got six months paid sick leave, so her PA, Doug Thomas, who had been a film editor, I think, or assistant film editor. He and I did the programme for six months, and I still have a letter, because at the end of it, I was given whatever they calle[…]
[…]in that sense it was great. DB: And from there, where did you go? What happened? PB-C: Well, I freelanced for a time after that as a camera assistant, and I remember working for the National Coal Board, which was interesting stuff… DB: So this was via contacts or an agency? Or the uni[…]
[…]y was in the Isle of Wight, when I went on tour in 'Young Woodley'. And we opened in the Isle of Wight, and I played Cope, the 'fag' in it. And I was assistant stage manager as well. And that was quite an opening because in the Isle of Wight in those days, you played - Monday night you opened in Ryd[…]
[…] he said, Well, would you like to work at the GPO. I said, Oh my God, we don't have to do. He said well, we look we're looking for some sort of young assistants, you know. So I said, Well, what about college and he was my mate. She didn't want to bring him along to sort of Bingo. Next week I was wor[…]
[…] them off the ground, and they took on a couple of extra lads and I showed them the ropes and then I moved onto the floor as a 'cable monkey' or boom assistant, as you will remember. And I spent most of the rest of the time at Pinewood as a boom assistant.Alan Lawson : Can you remember who you were […]
[…]size of the crew and the way they worked?Eddie Dryhurst: Well crews as we know them today were really non-existent, the cameraman didn't even have an assistant as far as I recall. The director had a fellow trudging round him just - he was at his beck and call - virtually a messenger chap. But there […]
[…]were very often shotwith a camera for the clouds and things at Technicolor, and there, I can’t remember whothe bloke was, but Di Berline [ph] was the assistant, because I became friendly with her, she was the assistant on the camera that did those background shots at Technicolor. So of course animat[…]
