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[…] say I started off at Stoll's as a clapper boy and progressed to first assistant. I left Stoll's after about 12 months and went to Gaumont's, Gaumont British at Lime Grove. I was there at Lime Grove until the sort of crash came, the general film industry crash in 1936, when we were all - these days […]

[…]ifferent parts of the studio, you see?   ROY FOWLER: It was one large stage?HARRY MILLER: Yes, well they had two very large.  This was British International Pictures, Elstree, and you’d have three units, a Hitchcock and, I can’t remember at the moment, Monty Banks, Wilcox, all the old[…]

[…]17  And anyway, this is not the back of his face this is not the backUnknown Speaker  1:28  stop. No.Derek Threadgall  1:33  British entertainment history project.Unknown Speaker  1:38  Oh, hello. This is good.Derek Threadgall  1:44  Okay, so we've done t[…]

[…]cript has been produced automatically using Speechmatics.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[…]

[…] manager of Columbia Pictures and was based in London. So, of course, he brought the family down and he stayed with them for a while, then he went to British Lion as assistant managing director to the late Sidney Myers, another character in the business, and then in his latter years of his career he[…]