[…]the Unknown.X the Unknown.2: I’ve got a copy of that, you know, on 8mm.X the Unknown, which was a really difficult location. It was night work in the Beaconsfield gravel pits. It was from five o’clock in the evening till about six o’clock the next morning in the freezing cold. You sunk into the mud […]
[…]bsp;But what happened is that Joe Losey bought “This Sporting Life” No, quite wrong Julian Wintle who was a producer at Beaconsfield, it was called Wintle and, there weretwo of them, Parkin, Parkin and Wintle bought[…]
[…] can only say now I don't really know why it they're all behaved like that, and why they didn’t, I mean when I went to see Grierson at Group Three in Beaconsfield, well obviously I wanted some kind of a job and all I got was a rather hostile reception from Grierson and a lot of talk about how great […]
[…]ned the bloody stuff at the cutting room. So effect me daughter was left out. And I was on some other film, John was she was filming I was dubbing at Beaconsfield. Anvil. Yeah. And I said to the editor, I have a feeling this isn't complete. I think we'll have this. We have that shot indeed taken up […]
[…] you know, the general feeling Yes, that's right. I remember. I remember that being said myself. You do. Yeah. But when when we were still working at Beaconsfield, that time was 19 50 years. Actually, in France as a, an artist is referred to as La run in Napa calm Tom, which is he's a young one, he'[…]
[…]e was a - I think she was in editing as well wasn't she?Margaret Thomson: I don't know, I only know of her.Charles Wilder: I know she used to work at Beaconsfield.John Taylor: Oh Gwyn's mother?Margaret Thomson: Yes.Charles Wilder: Hmm.John Taylor: Yes she was a negative cutter, yes.Charles Wilder: O[…]
[…]film business, I wanted to be a film director, that was the big thing. And I went down from Leuchars, my sister she shared a house with an actress in Beaconsfield with an actress called Everley Gregg. And do you remember in Brief Encounter the woman on the train who always talked and there were clos[…]
[…]d be a good idea for you." And so he recommended that I should become an editor at British Lion with Sam Smith [possibly Herbert Smith, producer?] at Beaconsfield. And there was a man there called Arthur Tavares who was the chief editor, and I was there for two years working on 'quickies' where, you[…]