[…] I started work in the' office of the Automobile Association in St James's Street as an office boy.Fowler/Lawson: Oh, well how come you got into films?Bill Girdlestone: Well, I was the original film buff. I had a home cinema at about 12. A local sweet shop started to sell film, six feet a […]
[…] (1929), which Hitchcock later made into the first British feature film with synchronized sound. Other writing credits as a collaborator […]
[…] got into films? Bill Girdlestone: Well, I was the original film buff. I had a home cinema at about 12. […]
[…] also a movie addict. We used to go miles to film societies and I would see all the French films […]
[…]m room to room. And really, the whole thing clinched itself a mutual friend, David McCallum and he used to live in the homes with a brother who was a film editor, Douglas I've only didn't meet him very much. But he was the senior fire guard. Yes. And we live next door to the deputy Fire Guard who so[…]
[…]nd down all hours of the night. But I saw an advert in the Daily Telegraph saying that the right organisation we're going to get into the business of filmmaking how they wanted production accountants with a budgetary knowledge well I'd done about four years with the with the Lucas grew up in Burnley[…]
[…]en I gave up everything and became an actor. And that was it...Arnold Schwartzman : Oh, sorry, I must ask a question! What made you decide to go into film?Charles Bennett : I didn't decide to go into film. It sort of happened. Actually, I started professionally in the theatre, I suppose when I was e[…]
[…]There is some license for exaggeration. DS 2021. The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project.John Halas, animator and film producer, interviewer is Bob Godfrey, the interview was recorded on the 18th July 1990 Side one Bob Godfrey: you once told me you were […]
[…]2 and then four years later, my parents moved to Emerick Park, and on the morning, on my way to the old Metropolitan line, I became aware there was a film studio, And I thought, Oh, I'd like to work at films studio, and I'd love to work locally. So I wrote for a job. Got one a secretariat awareness,[…]
