[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]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[…]
[…]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. [[…]
[…] the films started at a very early age then? While you were still...Peggy Gick: [Chuckling.] Yeah...1933, '34. The first one I went to see was out at BIP, which was Cameron Menzies who was doing...what was it... ['The Shape of Things to Come'] wasn't it? I think...John Legard: Yeah...about that, yea[…]
[…]which is still there and still Very much as they were in those days. That happened out of the blue. One of the people I'd written to years before was BIP and I suddenly got this note saying would I go down there and I was interviewed by this interesting character, Walter Mycroft, who was in charge o[…]
[…]t came from Germany at that time, did it not? Do you remember those? Maybe B & D didn’t have themCB: No, I don’t think...I: A lot of them went to BIP,CB: YesI: The cameramen and suchCB: YesI: There were some great, great film people. Technically competentCB: E.A. Dupont of courseI: E. A. Dupont […]
