Maurice Askew

[…]x picture at the Gate National as they they set up. He set up a very big organisation, which was going to be a nucleus of directors or producers, the best in the country. And um - actually it was one of my shortest jobs, I started on a Monday morning and was fired at lunchtime! On a thing called 'D-[…]

Peter Stroud

[…] here about three months, Denham closed down! [laughs] The only time I went over there was on music sessions!Jim Shields: It always works out for the best doesn't it?Peter Stroud: Yeah, yeah, dead lucky you know.Jim Shields: But Peter tell me, if I can just go back a moment...Peter Stroud: Hmm...Jim[…]

John L Hargreaves

[…] as Dr. Shepherd I did all the studios Elstree, they probably kept the stills department and they always kept a sound department. That was one of the best really, but they're all good they're all very denisha The sound is so important.Jim Shields  19:52  He says nothing has changed now of […]

John Jeffrey

[…]ir business on feature after feature after feature and really it was the prominent laboratory in London wasn’t it?00:05:34 – 00:20:00 It was known as Best Lab at first; by the time JJ arrived everyone was getting modern – Hazeltine Analyser Model C; the building was decrepit at the time; they were a[…]

Alfred E (Alfie) Cox

[…] and the people that were doing the questioning I thought No way. So I answered all the questions on the questionnaire wrongly or half wrong. And the best thing that I had no idea I got a job in the film industry first of all was in the contract department then in public where I knew wrong conferenc[…]

Les Ostinelli

[…]e to learn a bit more about it. I used to buy the Amateur Cine world and the other one at that time. And I got very interested and I thought well the best thing to do was probably try to join one of these cine societies of which there were a lot in those days. And aiming at the top I thought which w[…]
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