[…]hose days. So there were these four small stages, and everyone knew everybody of course, who the riggers were, the painter, the plasterers, the carpenters, stage hands and it was a friendly atmosphere. It wasn’t quite as rigid I think as the big studios in the union sense. Today it[…]
[…]nd what sort of family do you come from? Gus Walker 0:40 Well, there were seven of us. Yeah, I was, I was apprenticed as a carpenter joiner, and eventually I went through the technical college, and I qualified with city and guilds and everything to become a clerk of the wo[…]
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[…]ow whether there was oh what I should have said, while I was at Ealing, I went up one day on crutches, my, I think, yes, my grandfather was the local carpenter and undertaker and he had a bad fire, nearly burnt the house down, but all of his outbuildings which were mostly made of wood and all of his[…]
[…] the day before shooting and simply bolted together. That was an enormous advancement from building on the set, that things were built off stage in a carpenter's shop and then wheeled into position. This was a wonderful advance. 4. Descendants of Independent FrameBL: Another thing which we shou[…]
[…] got to be an engineer it's got to be. A carpenter some sort of scientist. And I look forward to […]
[…]never forget he, the telephone rang one Saturday morning and I think it was Hal and there was an entire unit at Ealing waiting to start shooting. The carpenters were there, the lighting men were there, the actors were there but there was no electrician there and nobody would dare touch the main swit[…]
[…]en and we recommend 1860. And it's a beautiful photograph, and then stayed there. And we went on then we stayed in Ireland. My dad was a weed writing carpenter. He was good. I was fond of my dad. And he was you know, his business was going down because the Irish Free State had come into being in 192[…]
