[…] apart from being a writer, was presumably a film director-WR: Well for some time – I was so young Les that I don’t really know – he almost took over Beaconsfield Studios, which we were living almost two or three miles away from, and she – when she wasn’t with him – I know one thing she did, she did[…]
[…]e studio I'll never see them again.SPEAKER: M11But that wasn't to be said of course. And went over to work at Group Three where they were they had to Beaconsfield by then they had arrived at Beaconsfield. Yes. And I remember there was a scene early on when I wasn't quite sure what to do so I went to[…]
[…], no, I did one of those for him.SC: I thought Gracie Fields was in it.AL: Bit early for Gracie Fields.EC: Well anyway, they were finishing it off at Beaconsfield. and as soon as this new studio was ready for them they would go. So off I went and this time I was able to take Alastair Macdonald. I sa[…]
[…]ond assistant, and before I did these things I went out and worked on Queenie in Australia [film - The Queen in Australia], you remember, out at Beaconsfield.                      […]
[…]gn version in 13 languages and I got the translators from the BBC, whatever language came upRF: You're based where? Are they still at Pinewood?LK: In BeaconsfieldRF: Well take us through typical operation then. The Crown Film Unit has shot and cut the picture, they've got a released version presumab[…]
[…]y in the Depression years to get a job in pictures.E.M. Smedley-Aston: No, no, that's quite true. Well I...the first studio I ever went into was Beaconsfield where there was a female Art Director, I think her name was Mary Brabham or something like that. Anyhow, she was a friend of the family a[…]
[…]ad. So I really knew most of them. No, John had by that time had started Crown Film Unit and I went in there straight away. Yes, immediately. Down at Beaconsfield.Stephen Peet: That was what, about '46 or something of that sort?Philip Leacock: 1946, yes. And about a year later they sent me a huge su[…]
[…]utes, well five minutes. So, I went on and I did then work for Harry Pottle on Waltz of the Toreadors and at that time he was going over to Beaconsfield and I did a Norman Wisdom picture with him over at Beaconsfield called The Bulldog Breed and then he said, “Why don’t you come […]
