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[…] got the sack and I stayed on! And after another - whatever it was - a year or nine months, I finally got a break into the cutting rooms with Gaumont-British Instructional, on the top floor of Lime Grove. And I made all the mistakes that you do when you're training to be an editor. Dropping the cent[…]

[…] Studios, Cricklewood in 1928. He remained with Wilcox, moving to British and Dominions at Elstree and working on films such […]

[…] included in... They were the pre-planning of the jury selection committees. I did my share of those.Kay Mander: That would be for what, for the BFA, British Film Academy days? Or BAFTA?Joy Batchelor: BAFTA. And abroad too. I was on the Venice Film Festival, and one in Portugal, one in Spain. There […]

[…] Aug 25, 2008 11:11 PM BIOGRAPHY: Charles Bennett was a British writer, director and sometime actor most famous for his […]

[…]hich I went to the Architectural Association, where I did a 5-year course in architecture and in 1928 I became an associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Uh, during the time I was a student, I happened to be walking to the Tube one day with a friend of my father's, another doctor, an[…]

[…]hat's a technical job is it?11:08  DMW: No. Thank you for the question.NS: Please explain, yes.DMW: This is the elitist snobbery thing about the British. The establishment. Had I been to the wrong interviewer, I would have become a Junior Programme Engineer doing the same job. But because appar[…]

[…]ah sure, why not?Tom Peacock: So I would go. Now when I start reminiscing I get mixed up with Shepperton, Pinewood, Denham, Riverside Studio, Gaumont-British, Fox in Wembley, all the studios that I worked in you see. When they were busy I would nip in - MGM, and all that you see. But there was 'Cleo[…]