[…] used to collect all the props for the studio work. Your brother the brother did that as a transport. So it was in one special studio or the creative studios. And I was sitting there and they're doing the general stuff and MasterCard and the candidates. Would you win the job and he says I can't get […]
[…]eft home at twenty and a friend of ours offered me a home there - I managed to get a job in the short-hand typing.Sidney Cole : At Welwyn Garden City studios?Muriel Box : Yes.Sidney Cole : When would that be round about? In the late '20s?Muriel Box : No in the early '20s, about '22 or '3. That's whe[…]
[…]l known in the business. And they disagreed, and consequently was split up partnership. Barker moved to No.1 Soho Square and also retained the Ealing Studios. Well Ealing Studios then was, you might say, just a greenhouse. Two rough outside buildings, only used as dressing rooms. There was an old ho[…]
[…]ays before the war started. And I managed to get the last eighteen months of my career in the RAF, I got transferred to the RAF Film Unit at Pinewood Studios. And one day I was sent for by our commanding officer, which was Teddy Baird, and Pat Moyner[?], and they said, "The Rank Organisation are loo[…]
[…]hem took shares in the company, and they've done very well with them. And when we went out to rank a man, of course, he eventually he, he got the Fox Studios and he took shares in universal. And with that, of course, he got a lot of marvellous films, they were the Judy Garland film, not necessarily […]
[…] Dicky Leeman: Much Binding in the Marsh. Rodney Giesler: Eric Barker's Merry-Go-Round. Dicky Leeman: And I did a - interesting […]
