[…]8 What we when Peerless first started, the very first movie that we actually did. It was "Jabberwocky", which was Terry's first movie as a director. Yeah, again, very simple effects wise. And what I'd done with Peerless, he was getting away from the animation, getting away from live. Yeah[…]
[…]o London. He said, we'll talk more" I got a, I can't remember. He probably gave me a form to fill in. And I then got an interview with the BBC. Four people, usual standard BBC board interviewing. First thing I had to do was go into a room without seeing anybody just shown into a room. And[…]
[…]ning, the the proprietor I presume, I think they call them Barker's in those days. He was on the front telling us with a megaphone, all the wonderful films we'd see if we went inside. There was a list of titles but the time we there were very provocative titles but not unlike it when he went into li[…]
[…]e my grandfather was very interested in photography and he also at one time, before I came around, had in fact a movie camera and did a lot of family filming which, much to my sorrow, he gave away the film to a distant cousin of mine andI’ve never seen it. But he in fact did build his own little hom[…]
[…]folio, which I did and he got in touch with Roy Oxley2 who had been a fellow art director, now at this time, which by now was 1951 he was at the BBC. Now the head of design there at that time was Peter Bax3 and they, now what happened, oh I think it was the usual thing, they said apply, an[…]
[…]hey called it, yes.Tom Peacock: Sound City, they called it Sound City. And Korda had his brothers there, Vincent...Sidney Cole: That's right, the art director...Tom Peacock: Yeah. Well...Sidney Cole: ...and Zoltan.Tom Peacock: That's right, yeah. He used to be dressed up in breeches if I can remembe[…]
[…]sonInterviewee: Erica MastersTape 1, Side 1Sydney Samuelson: Well we're sitting here on the 2nd August 1995. We're in the meeting room of the British Film Commission, at 70, Baker Street in London, and the interviewee is no less than Miss Erica Masters, a legendary production person in our industry,[…]
[…] be there till nine.Were you ever late?I don't think so, I can't remember, except, oh, once...Y es.When I got caught in a snowdrift on the way to A, ABBC. I was driving along, I was, I was in Totteridge Lane.Y es.I started off in Totteridge Lane, well you know what that's like, and suddenly I had to[…]
[…]nk really, it's a tragedy that his I don't know why, but his kind of off screen personality damaged his reputation in terms of what he delivered as a director. He was a great director. Yeah, yeah. He had a great vision in his Ernest Marsh 39:00 movies. Look at any of his f[…]
