Ronald Neame

[…]nised by the Works Committee. But of course, it was never it never really any serious fire watching attached to it. They were mostly electricians and carpenters and painters and a few of us officer types thrown in. But it was cars all the time. It was a map, I think, I don't think they played anythi[…]

Daphne Shadwell

[…]d on that play, because it was so different from anything else I’d done. It was a very silly play and there wasn’t much in it, but it was...JPH: Bill Carpenter [ph] and Bill Kerr [ph].DS: Yes, it had a good cast. It was a silly play. And when I went into the studios with it, the very first ever stri[…]

Dudley Lovell

[…]ed in flame. He I don't know which picture was on it might have been might have been on one of the models shot but he did. I had a At the back by the carpenters job, he had a he had amodel shop. One night he was working there and he actually did blow himself up. He blew blew the whole place apart. H[…]

Norman Fisher

[…] Fowler: Who was the recordist?Norman Fisher: Ted Pauly. And we had two cameramen on the staff called Jonah Jones and Chick Fowle and we had a studio carpenter-come- handyman and everything else, so you could say we had, oh we had one permanent editor, so we had a total staff of about six or seven.R[…]

Denis Forman

[…] community, there were two rinks at Craigielands. My Father skipped the rink number oneand the Gamekeeper was back-hand that is the third player, the carpenter was number two and afterthe age of twelve I got the position of lead which was one of the great glories of my life. Thesecond rink was skipp[…]

Erwin Hillier

[…] open the studio door, shoot through the doors to get a long shot of a set. There's no other way of doing it. So we're finishing. We were outside the carpenter shop was opposite on the main stage. And then it was quite amazing, what we achieved in a small place by using imagination lenses, wide angl[…]

Cyril Howard

[…]nbsp;to have carried fewer people on the payroll. CH:  Oh yes. but always the producers moaned that if you asked for 20 carpenters you found you had 22, simply because we pushed then on, and we have over the years had a heavier management team than was&nb[…]

Adrian (Andy) Worker

[…]I only had to get rid of one head of department who was pretty useless. Roy Fowler: What department was that? Andy Worker: He was the chief carpenter. Roy Fowler: Right, and just no good at his job or had been and lost it? Andy Worker: He - I think he was a good carpenter but he […]

Guido Coen

[…]lated £15,000 on del ivery . The £13,000 would also absorb a certain amount of studio space, a certain amount of labour, because in those days he had carpenters and electricians, and therefore it paid him to absorb for a 3 week picture, 15 shooting days his staff and so on, and this happened very of[…]

BEHP Bulletin no 5 Feb 2021

[…] Street. Other radio studios were located at Broadcasting House in Carpenter Road , Edgbaston, and at the Walker Hall in […]
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