[…]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[…]
[…] based where? Are they still at Pinew ood? LK: In Beaconsfield RF : Well take us through typical operation then. […]
[…]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 […]
[…] bloke on the television is his son, one of his sons. But the foul mouth! Oh all the new words you learnt! And we were on the lot - not on the lot at Beaconsfield - but on the gravel pits of Beaconsfield and it was wintertime, January, ice and freezing cold. And he'd have this loudhailer and he'd be[…]
[…] you like to lead me onto some other line. Well I'd like to make it to. Packing up.SPEAKER: F13And welfare's crown.SPEAKER: F12We all know we went to Beaconsfield a couple of years after the war and I think that that was in itself a death crime for me. I thought about it a lot after. I always say si[…]
[…]bsp;impossible. As has been your day with the small things side sidetracked slightly Beaconsfield was a studio that has a little laboratory which is sort of one man&[…]
[…]rest, because they thought it would have been a miracle if they had climbed it and of course the lovely part of it was that all the film came back to Beaconsfield [HANDWRITTEN ADDITION] ‘studios’ after it had been to the labs, I think it was Denham Labs, I'm not sure, when it had been to the labs an[…]
[…]ortunately, as a result, after I'd given up filming, I got a phone call offering me the job of running the camera side at the National Film School at Beaconsfield, and I went out and was interviewed, and said 'Well, when do I start?', and they said 'Now', and I hadn't got a clue what I was going to […]
