[…]ang me up again, sometime later to start a film called ['Mid-Shipman Easy'?] which was Carol Reed's first film. Because he'd been Basil Deane's first assistant and Basil Deane had gone off to Austria to make ['Whom the Gods Love'], and Carol Reed was given his chance of ['Mid-Shipman Easy']. As it w[…]
[…]hat their competitor is somebody who is already making the tea and doesn't have a degree, and he'd be making it three years this time, he moved on to assistant editor or something, and editors, other than in our game videotape, it's a knack which one out of six children might have. I know, two out o[…]
[…]amazing. GM: So they gave me a full time contract. RL: And the job was?[DS1] GM: I started off as basically catering assistant in the stores. I never worked in, in the, in the thing. I did, days and things, yeah, yeah, RL: Broadcasting. GM: Nothing, n[…]
[…]ar discipline. I just do anything. And I remember one instance where I was the clapper loader, the driver, the carrying the electrical equipment, the assistant editor for what was then the BOAC on a documentary that Athos films was making about about BOAC and the aircraft, the passenger airline, and[…]
[…] foreign languages. Bingo! So at 17 I went up to Broadcasting House. And I think I had three interviews altogether and was made a Recorded Programmes Assistant. Vital.[Side 1, 11:05] NS: That's a technical job is it?11:08 DMW: No. Thank you for the question.NS: Please explain, yes.DMW: T[…]
[…]bsp;background to that was that I got the New Statesman sent by Dick Crossman who was then the assistant editor for nothing. I did contribute a few articles. I signed myself infantry officer because I couldn1t really sig[…]
[…]rtly after my visit to see this film a vacancy occurred in the sound department so I was whisked away for a formal interview. The job was to be sound assistant/playback operator, work to which I was well accustomed from my domestic cinema. So I was delighted when I was told I could start the followi[…]
[…]n Keys [Anthony Nelson Keys] was the PM [Production Manager] and I don't know how but I suppose through Norman Lee's influence I got a job as the 3rd assistant. That had Betty Fields playing the lead, Redd Davis was the director, the studio was then run by Norman Loudon and Maggie was his secretary.[…]
[…] because we had to finish the film. Well the camera assistant I think was Jeff Talbott was then called yet […]
[…]aft was actually as an editor rather than, although I believe you have occasionally directed as well.Simon Rose 1:19 Yes, I started as an assistant was rejectionist, an assistant editor editor did some directing decided it wasn't suited to me or I wasn't suited to it and went back to edi[…]
