[…]s, I think we were lucky in that. It did have attention. I mean, I think that was great to help by the Boulting brothers, who were then running British Lion that actually had his own short department division. Prior to that, I, I really walked out of or ran away and away to Paris. To stu[…]
[…] Smedley Aston entered the film industry as a runner at British International Pictures in 1932. Throughout the 1930s he worked […]
[…]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[…]
[…]d she had - amongst many of her clients - she had a lady whose husband happened to be at that time the general sales manager of a film company called British Lion Film Corporation. And Sidney Myers was looking, or somebody within British Lion was looking for some young blood, and Mrs Myers happened […]
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[…]d from time to time as assistant for other cameramen. Other cameramen I worked for—I remember working for—were James Ritchie, later a producer at the British Rail Unit, and John Reed [UNVERIFIED], John R.F. Stewart, and Bill Pollard. It was with Bill Pollard I remember having possibly my most enjoya[…]
[…] of pictures in England in that period, features and all kinds of things. Oh yes, he was a busy man.Roy Fowler: There was a fairly healthy English or British production organisation at that time, was there not?Eddie Dryhurst: Well it was struggling to be born in a sense I think. There were a lot of […]
[…] 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 […]
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