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

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[…]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[…]

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[…] that keen. They thought my education was all rather wasted. During the course of business my father met Castleton Knight who was the head of Gaumont British News, quite a character, an extraordinary chap. He did a lot of extraordinary publicity stunts at a time when newsreels were in enormous compe[…]

[…] 03:01Well, from there, I went to Burndept, which was another radio manufacturer, manufacturing concern, one of the founder companies of the old British Broadcasting Company. And then in turn I went to 'Experimental Wireless', which was one of the first serious radio journals, by which I mean i[…]

[…] job I went to a place in Petit France where British Transport Films had just set up an office. And John Jokenson […]

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