[…] in it.Rodney Giesler: One of the first sound films was it?Dicky Leeman: No, there'd been sound for some time on that.Rodney Giesler: And this was at BIP was it?Dicky Leeman: Yes. And then I followed that with quite a lot of crowd work, including one I remember, I think it was called 'Stand Up and S[…]
[…]like that size of stages or the number of them that Pinewood and Shepperton have so they would not strictly be competitors of ours.AL Because the old BIP is almost dead.GH Yes, I can’t believe that would be resurrected. I still think there are a couple of TV companies in there but so much of i[…]
[…]ite interested in your time at Welwyn.Manny Yospa: Ah yes.Charles Drazin: Now presumably - now who would have owned Welwyn?Manny Yospa: Oh it was the BIP, British International Pictures, they were the same people who owned Elstree but Elstree was closed down during the war.Charles Drazin: Right.Mann[…]
[…]eaning, I believe, Adams, Myers, made by.Really? I didn’t know that.Atkins... I can’t remember it now.Atkins made. Made by Atkins.Yes. Two chaps from BIP.Oh right. Well I never knew that. Anyway, so the idea is that the same as they do nowadays for film, is to lay your tracks physically on 16mm magn[…]
[…].Ray Morse 30:58 We did the musicalAlan Lawson 30:59 BNG were tiny little are being BNG were down the road next door to BIP. Then they got burned down.Ray Morse 31:12 Loved the musical with all the old timers Flatlay Desmond and Herman de rooskies band. Love[…]
[…]been in the - he'd been sort of associated with films before. In fact he was a clapper boy in the studios over the road there, what were they called? BIP before that...Jim Shields: Yes that's right.Maurice Askew: I remember him telling me a joke that was played on him, on a big set on one of the pic[…]
