Richard Marden

[…]  he and the news. When did you Where did you start first? And asRichard Marden  22:18  I started first at a place called Carlton Hill studios, and this was in 1946, as a trainee in the sound department, becauseAlan Legard  22:28  I was your contact there. How do youRichard […]

Dicky Leeman

[…] Dicky Leeman: Much Binding in the Marsh. Rodney Giesler: Eric Barker's Merry-Go-Round. Dicky Leeman: And I did a - interesting […]

David Robson

[…] one side you've got the Shredded Wheat factory and Welwyn studios and those sort of things, and on the other […]

David Robson

[…] Lawson: Yes, yes, yes.David Robson: The main Cambridge line runs through the centre, so on one side you've got the Shredded Wheat factory and Welwyn studios and those sort of things, and on the other side you've got the residential part. But it was the first of the socialist communities which worke[…]

Dicky Leeman

[…]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[…]

Philip Donnellan

[…]n said even in the television period that one of the reasons studio programmes continue to play a big part in the whole schedule is the fact that the studios exist and must be used …Philip Donnellan: Yes.Colin Moffat: … and if we start phasing them out and shooting on location we've got certain pers[…]

Peter Sargent

[…]ested in the girls ['and food' ]. What happened then?PS. Well, I spent two years as a clapper-boy, and I don't think I learnt a thing, and Lime Grove Studios where I was the clapper-boy, and then I went up a notch as focus-puller. You know what that is? Yes. And I went up a notch to that, then they […]

James (Jimmy) Gilbert

[…]ano, drums, guitar, base, clarinet and we used to do gigs. In fact our lead guitarist, a chap called Crossbie ended up as one of the bosses of Ealing Studios so I met him much later in my career when I was directing and he was in charge and by then he'd become an obsessive music nut. So I had a musi[…]

Wendy Toye

[…] television, they cut out all the extraneous bits, I think I was in that and then I watch it through and find out I wasn't. They cut it out.LW: Which studios did you work at?WT: Gainsborough. I've got a marvelous story about Gainsborough. Not that many years ago I was in New York and Dicky Attenboro[…]

Anne V Coates

[…]ero became David Lean, because at that time he was doing Great Expectations. I’d been, I’d been to Denham a couple of visits, I’d got taken round the studios, and I had visited Brief Encounter and, Caesar and Cleopatra, the one with Claude Rains, and things like that, you know. Yes, I used to go […]
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