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[…] Smedley Aston entered the film industry as a runner at British International Pictures in 1932. Throughout the 1930s he worked as Production […]

[…]tter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of the content of this interview.However, the BEHP wants t[…]

[…]t I did get an introduction to Elstree. There was a man who I think was still a name in the city, called Scringer and he was a director of Associated British Picture Corporation which as you all know was founded by John Maxwell. And I think at that time the Associated British had a rather large over[…]

[…] mins] Growing up: first job at newspaper; starting at Gaumont British News; first job as a cameraman; learning to use […]

[…]ch a strange man to find in the rough battle dress of a Royal Montreal Regiment Lance Corporal.He subsequently because he knew all the leaders in the British world of psychology British and Scottish of course world of psychology he dropped in on one of them in Cambridge as a Lance Corporal and was m[…]

[…]the cleaners in the morning who were taking out the sweet wrappers and things and all they had to do was to prove that they had shown that film, that British film, in their cinema.And um, er he certainly must have got back in by writing, producing, directing and editing some Quota Quickies and in fa[…]

[…] with the play, and said, "This is a film," got British International Pictures to buy it, and that was it! So 'Blackmail' […]

[…]fax: Gentleman, which was a famous book by a woman named Mrs. Craik. I played John Halifax when young, and a guy named Fred Paul, who was by way of a British film star, played him when he was older. So I was in films, I'd forgotten that, yes! But I don't think I was quite up there with Mickey Rooney[…]

[…]tter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of the content of this interview.However, the BEHP wants t[…]

[…]dn't go to Denham till 1950 and after three or four years they made me Chief Contact.Tape 1, Side 2Fowler/Lawson: In those early days of Gaumont British at the Bush, what kind of pressures were on the cameramen, well, also on yourself? Let's talk about you first. What kind of pressures did you […]