SPEAKER: F1The copyright of this recording is vested in the AC Titi history project. John Allen. Laboratory technician Technicolor and also a manager. INTERVIEWER Alice Cooper with Alan Lawson recorded on the second of May nineteen ninety one side one first of all when and where were you born.SPEAKE[…]
[…]was delighted when I was told I could start the following Monday. I was offered the fantastic wage of £1 a week/ and here's the punchline, the studio manager said if you're any good we'll start paying you the second week. I don't think you'd have that today. But I was so keen I was willing to work f[…]
[…] of £1 a week/ and here's the punchline, the studio manager said if you're any good we'll start paying you […]
[…] we had to build our own studio down there and all the sets that went in it and the art department consisted of himself and and later on one in which construction manager that was it. And the production department was the same Hong Kong industry. It did it did. And you see when I first started to pi[…]
[…]the chief's son, he became the main character in the film, fictionally as it were. It is reenacted all this, and then on the on the job of the actual construction with real work of things like...closeups of the blasting and all the rest of it, all specially arranged. And this chief's son became the […]
[…] ranks-ish in the BBC. SF: Yes. Started as a floor manager. SF: Yes. And worked in the BBC. So when […]
[…] accent.SF: No, of course, not.So he’d gone and taken elocution lessons.SF: Yes.And risen through the ranks-ish in the BBC.SF: Yes.Started as a floor manager.SF: Yes.And worked in the BBC. So when I met him he’d just made a little film, I think I was about... How old was I? Twenty-two, he was twenty[…]
[…]ous presence. I mean, he would walk down the corridor and it'd be the entourage but whole studio had behind him, you know, the studio manager and the construction manager, everybody all following down this corridor. And he took a delight corridor into sort of dominating people and also keeping them […]
[…]Margate and going to the Royal School for Deaf and Dumb children and seeing Dreamland. And I shot this and John came down, I wrote a letter of to the manager of Dreamland and said, a hypocritical letter which said we would love to do a film about Dreamland which might be of use to you for publicity […]
