[…]e to develop my negatives according to the Kodak principle, which was ten minutes, in my automatic machines at Shepherd's Bush, whereas Humphries and Denham was six minutes. That's why I got much better gradation and I've got a letter here which I can give you, or show you, from Bernard Knowles was […]
[…] in my automatic machines at Shepherd's Bush, whereas Humphries and Denham was six minutes. That's why I got much better […]
[…] light of that story and knowing you were later at Denham, is it true there was a sign at Denham […]
[…] know people say, "Oh that's ridiculous." But I mean it did actually happen.Roy Fowler: In the light of that story and knowing you were later at Denham, is it true there was a sign at Denham that said, "To be Hungarian is not enough"?E.M. Smedley-Aston: Um well there was a story...I did go[…]
[…]sp; at Denham studios, because Pinewood Studio, having opened in 1936 closed in 38, not because of the war, so many people say that,&nbs[…]
[…]n and the building industry. And I had a friend that had been at the technical school with me. He was now a charge hand for mentors that was building Denham studios. FG, Minter and I came down to join him. And of course, when I go into film, doesn't it? There was no more thought of South Africa beca[…]
[…] then it was rampant. There was a classic case at Denham after the War. I made my first two or […]
[…] for Fox British. Early in the war she moved to Denham and was the art director or production designer on […]
[…]irls and editors. And of course, very early on my hero became David Lean, because at that time he was doing Great Expectations. I’d been, I’d been to Denham a couple of visits, I’d got taken round the studios, and I had visited Brief Encounter and, Caesar and Cleopatra, the one with Claude Rains, an[…]
