[…]cause you're so worried in life in general that a word of encouragement does it but I was thrilled to bits about that. I was at Gainsborough Studios, BIP, which was Elstree, Denham because I did the dances and a lot of 6 the movement for The Thief Of Baghdad, which is when Korda first knew me.A[…]
RF: You came into the industry through Walter Mycroft, going to BIP in 1928? SG: I actually came up with him in his little car on New Year's Day, 1928. It was his first day and my first day. RF: The story about him was that he was a fairly astringent crit[…]
[…]eally.Roy Fowler: That was a problem with most of the early sound systems, wasn't it? A number of people have talked about that happening at Elstree, BIP, there was always a problem with blowing the galvanometer. Calvalcanti, also had a short fuse, was he over it very quickly? Was he a pleasant man […]
[…]musical ever made on that sort of scale, you see. And before Goon British came into there were only small little films like British dominion and even bip, except for few things, didn't amount to much as the Balkans did, and austers wanted to be very ambitious Dominions firms of great standing, you s[…]
[…] was all done on the set with water chutes, when the boat was in heavy weather and water, coming down.Roy Fowler: You worked in a variety of studios. BIP lot, ABPC lot, British National, Denham and now you're at Ealing. Did you have a favourite studio to work in?Robert Beatty: Definitely Ealing. Thi[…]
[…]ch a journey getting there from here. Pinewood was my love, straight along, apart from that it was always so well run.SC: Well of course Elstree, the BIP or Canon as it now is or was did grow up higgledy-piggledy.DM: That was the way it grew, but the best thing about it was that it was right at the […]
[…]all passed now. [Laughter]2. Start of career at SheppertonRP: My father knew Norman Lee who was directing films in those days.SC: He was directing at BIP [British International Pictures] and places.RP: Yes, he was quite a well-known director. He was making a film at Riverside and so I went there as […]
[…]ts that were alright on the music-halls to the talkies, as second features, and my treat used to be when I was you ng to go out to Elstree to the old BIP - British International Pictures - where he was working, and watch the filming. It never dawned on me that I'd like to do it... It simply seemed a[…]
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[…] some time on that. Rodney Giesler: And this was at BIP was it? Dicky Leeman: Yes. And then I followed […]
