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[…] memories of many colleagues. There is particularly rich material on BIP Elstree in the early 1930s, with discussions of Robert […]

E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…]sp;Right.E.M. Smedley-Aston: So yes...we finished about mid December 1932 and then the next one...Roy Fowler: Can you paint us a picture of BIP [N.B. British International Pictures] in that period of time? The atmosphere in the studio and the people you were with.E.M. Smedley-Aston: W[…]

Dallas Bower

[…]ork as I'd been doing at Burndept, which was to advise customers on technical matters.Alan Lawson  04:30Then from BTH you went, you went to BIP was that with the BTH sound system? Dallas Bower  04:36What happened was this RCA had installed their equipment, their recording eq[…]

Val Guest

[…]hool plays.VG: That came later in my teens when I went into, I went on stage to start with and then I did odd things in films for Warner Brothers and BIP [British International Pictures] and I worked a lot with Lupino Lane.RF: Just to wrap up on school did you have any encouragement on writing there[…]

Harry Miller

[…]village and there’s a hold up, a complete traffic block, police cars and all that lot you know.  They could not get this tree into the studio at BIP.   There was an awful row and eventually I had to come out, cut about twelve feet off take the rest away, take twelve feet into the studio.&n[…]

Alf Cooper

[…]I joined Kay’s and I was there, I don’t know, and I wasthere for about five years I think and in 1936 I came unstuck and that’s when I joined ACTT at BIP’s. There’d be Twiggy Twyman and Bert, and Bert, and Bert, mm, BertCraykeWhat, mm, what did you actually start at as Kay’s whenever?Oh a toe rag. [[…]

Cedric Dawe

[…]e States as in Canada.Coming back to this country, because of family illness I eventually got married at a time when I just managed to get a job with BIP, you know, the old British International Picturesat Elstree.R. F. Tell us how you set about that? Had you become a film buff, a film fan. Did you […]

Peter Proud

[…]sp;with the job.Where was that shot?ATV Studios at Borehamwood. Various things at EMI and BIP. I'm afraid Ithen became an advertising man, more or less for several years and&n[…]

Peggy Gick

[…] The first one I went to see was out at BIP, which was Cameron Menzies who was doing...what was it... […]
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