Harry Manley (HM)Laboratories (Colour Film Services)BECTU 383Interviewers: John Legard (JL) & Dave Robson (DR)Date: 10/06/19962 Tapes Side 100:00:00 – 00:18:08 Background and early life in Birkenhead; started at Birkenhead School in 1945 and left at sixteen; wanted a career as a customs off[…]
[…]Theatre. I was engaged as assistant stage manager and understudying the leads, going on in many crowd scenes and small parts, and quite a cast. Flora Robson was the leading lady, Tony Guthrie was the young director, and Robert Donat was the young juvenile, (laughing) so that was a good r[…]
[…]em in that, sort of again it’s all one off projects but television… sort of… even there they’ve been cutting back and trimming. You know that because Dave used to work Alder Boutique and I’ve got friends who work or the BBC and they’ve been cutting back a lot sort of, you know all this about we’re g[…]
[…]mixing job as a dubbing mixer, earning 40 pounds a week. They were paying Cyril brown 50. But I then I still had there with me, Graham Bloomfield and Dave Roberts and Fred Haywood. They'd all come over from Covent Garden, and we so when we were mixing, Graham had a week's holiday, and we needed an e[…]
[…]ter I think after winning the war I probably came to England to do top secret for the circus in Jamaica warehouse which was what did they.SPEAKER: M12Dave what did they use in this country now. I mean for dramas serious like Pride and Prejudice they would let me shot on Super 16 no studio 60 days.SP[…]
