[…]or the Crown Film Unit Ken Cameron said I hope you'll continue working for me when you're demobbed. I said I'd love to because he had a new studio at Beaconsfield and he offered me a nice salary. The fact that I had worked for Denham before the war and Denham 15 Studios closed, it was still und[…]
[…] got turned down.Kay Mander: I was working down there, at Worton Hall studios, when they were shooting that.Joy Batchelor: Was it Worton Hall? It was Beaconsfield, I thought, because they were working for Rank.Kay Mander: No, they were working for Alex Korda when they were doing the hunting film...J[…]
[…]ry films for some time until the future of the Crown Film Unit looked very uncertain and they were going to be turned out of Pinewood and maybe go to Beaconsfield. There was a lot of uncertainty about the Crown Film Unit.Meanwhile DP Field and AW Watkins had decided to go to MGM Studios at Borehamwo[…]
[…]into film or television because of the association of your father?Betty Bachelor: Michael did. Michael started his apprenticeship with Ted, he was at Beaconsfield and he was apprenticed there.Sid Cole: Did he never work with Bert?Betty Bachelor: The only time was on opposite sides. Michael was for t[…]
[…]e last job he had in production was just before the war, Sam Smith of British Lion who had been my father’s partner in better times gave him a job at Beaconsfield Studios as assistant editor on two films. One was called The Chinese Bungalow and the other was Sandy Powell in a comedy called All at Se[…]
[…]rector and watching what he's going to do much of what actors are doing and so on and so forth. Now if you've got video and I've worked with video at Beaconsfield a bit to show them how to do things and video. It's not the same you you know that if you put a light on and it looks as though it's come[…]
[…] mean some of them were so far out there, like Beaconsfield, it was like that, and I lived then at […]
[…] workshops for students at the National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield, and also at the International Film Workshops, Rockport, Maine […]
[…] when I went to see Grierson at Group Three in Beaconsfield, well obviously I wanted some kind of a job […]
