[…]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[…]
[…]as evacuated to Australia, where Iwent to school there. And during the war I came back to England and that’s where I gotmy first job, at Gainsborough Studios, as studio manager’s secretary.1: You just sort of went there and, you know, applied for a job and...?Yes. I was looking for a job and I saw t[…]
[…]ors, with the Popeye films and the Chaplin films and all those kinds of films. And dad new Lady Youell And through him, I got an introduction to Rock studios in 1943 44 this was And I was taken off for a two year apprenticeship at Rock studios. It was six months, sound six months, camera, six months[…]
[…] Phil Leacock. John Legard: That's an interesting story, because Southall Studios became a corset factory after it ceased to be […]
[…] early 1920s, Elvey had become the chief director at Stoll studios, where he worked particularly on literary adaptations. His career […]
[…]bsp;yeah. TV s documentaries. Great storm. Zebra disaster. Oh,Speaker 2 42:03 yeah. Well, Oh, yeah. Well, no to it. I worked in Maidstone studios for TBS, quite long. And we filmed a year after the zebra look at his last, we filmed the first anniversary programme on the sister ship, whic[…]
[…]and dumped my script on her desk. They were shooting The Brave Don't Cry with Phil Leacock.John Legard: That's an interesting story, because Southall Studios became a corset factory after it ceased to be a studio. Now it's just derelict. I went past it not so long ago. Interesting times.Rodney Giesl[…]
[…] I was very interested in the early days of ACT, because I realised that it was essential: conditions were dreadful. I mean, people had to get to the studios as best they could; there was no taking them home by bus or charabancs, or anything like that. They just... if they were working late and tran[…]
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