[…] Architectural Association. She began working in British films as an assistant to Art Director Edward Carrick on Lorna Doone (1935). […]
[…] Vernon Sewell began his career in 1929 as a camera assistant at Nettlefold Studios before gaining experience as a camera […]
[…] (Shepperton) in 1937 on £1 a week as so und assistant/playback operator . The first film he worked on was […]
[…] theatre, ballet and Coppélia was a big iconic thing they were mounting, and so I worked on that for about three weeks, painting scenery, again as an assistant, apprenticed. And then the unions came along and said “Where is your card? Why are you working? It appears the film union card wasn’t all ri[…]
[…](indistinct) director. I said ‘well, what do you want to be in the end?’ he said “director” and I said ‘oh, so do I!’. he said, “well, become a third assistant director.” So I said ‘well, how do I do that?’ and he said “well, give me your phone number, and I’ll let you know.” So I thought, ‘yes, hah[…]
[…]I started as a sound recordingengineer.Roy Fowler: What - is there anything in between? I've got that you went to Nettlefold in 1929 as a camera assistant, what had you done...?Vernon Sewell: I was an engineer!Roy Fowler: An engineer, that's what you'd studied?Vernon Sewell: I wa[…]
[…] service. However, they would need they were needing they were needing more more styles. So therefore, they they open the gates and I signed on as an assistant steward and eventually worked my way up to on one ship, because I went on three or four ships while local ships while I was out there,Unknow[…]
[…]erview’. ‘Hm’ she said, ‘this is a terrible place, you can’t get a job here’. ‘Oh’ I said, rather nervously. And then Philip Pouncey, who was then an assistant and then became very, he was very well known, in the end he became head of the prints department in the British Museum. And he was a young m[…]
[…] to do it. And some of them were interested. Maurice Oakley, whom you probably remember, was a professional feature focus puller, or whatever, and an assistant cameraman, anyway in features. I don't know the sort of full details of features in those days, because I was never in it. And, um, he was a[…]
[…] rather nervously. And then Philip Pouncey, who was then an assistant and then became very, he was very well known, […]