[…]nk was either 35 or 36. And the director was Raul Waltz, whom I was introduced to, little did I know that 22 years, 23 years later, I'll be cutting a picture for him. Neither did he, for that matter. And it's Star dedmon, lo and Esther Ralston, both Americans, which was unusual in those days to have[…]
[…] So anyway, that so that was so, that was Jack, Jack Clayton, Noel Swami, and that, yeah, it's a great guest, please. Yes, I had a I won an English a BAFTA Award, I think for that, what do you doUnknown Speaker 23:52 with your awards?Speaker 1 23:54 Well, I got some of them u[…]
[…]he prop van when we were doing locations and things in the studio and I used to do his job and my own really at the same time and that was the silent pictures, right? I mean I got on well with old Harry Lachman because he used to ask for some really astounding things. Like we were down a[…]
[…]ide 1 Dave Robson 0:01 the copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. The subject is Norman Spencer, Motion Picture producer interviewed by Teddy Darvis. The date is the 22nd of June 1999. This is side one, and the file number is 453.Teddy Darvis […]
[…]re was that?Tilly Day: Wood Street, Walthamstow. The old Wood Street, Walthamstow film studio. I'd never heard of the film studio, I thought the pictures were made, you know, sort of somehow magically out of the air! Whenever I went to the pictures, which I was not allowed to do, I went in the […]
[…] pictures had just started, and it was a George King picture called 'Leave it to Me' with Robin Irvine. And […]
[…]m with a View in I was operated and lit and more recently the how's the recent one won the Oscar for for light, not for lighting and won it for one a BAFTA award I bet one thethink what it was? Or blank for the moment? Trying to think too many too many directions at once. Well, nevermind, we'llleave[…]
[…] called Scringer and he was a director of Associated British Picture Corporation which as you all know was founded by […]
[…]note there?Roy Fowler: I think you did yes. Let me ask you about that though. It wasn't easy, especially in the Depression years to get a job in pictures.E.M. Smedley-Aston: No, no, that's quite true. Well I...the first studio I ever went into was Beaconsfield where there was a female Art […]
[…]as 1904 was it not?Eddie Dryhurst: At the end of, yeah.Roy Fowler: Yeah right, okay. And at a very early age you had a great desire to go into motion pictures.Eddie Dryhurst: Yeah.Roy Fowler: Your family background, as I say, is documented, so why don't we start out with your first initial urgings t[…]
