John Turner

[…] use to get quite big money for those days, they made all these big posters, you know, you used to see in those days, and people used to do all these designs and things. But as I say, not for me. Anyway, in 1936 I heard of a vacancy on the newsreel so I applied for it, actually, and I got it. I didn[…]

Jill Balcon (Day-Lewis)

[…], with respect, [LAUGHTER] it was one of your fathers called "His Lordship" with George Arliss, last week it was on a few days ago, but the sets were designed by Junge, the cameraman was Günther Krampf. They were all immigrants, marvelous, marvelous  technicians. Anyway. Ealing I suppose o[…]

Joe Busuttil

[…]p;      He looked like Robert Newton but he wasn’t.  He was queer as a coo.  That I remember.  Because he had designs on all these young lads that were going round.  Altar boys or whatever.  I remember him saying because he was getting changed in a c[…]

E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…]m was certainly a few notches up from - bloody - the Bush. So that although it had these disadvantages of these endless corridors and so on, it was a design studio and it really did have department, it was properly departmentalised and it really did work. You got the impression as soon as you got th[…]

Cyril Page

[…]h HMV...Well, all I knew was that HMV was the dog with the big...the er earpiece stuck down his nose and listening to a record...and he was the Chief Designer for HMV at Hayes...And I said to him "Do...do you know anybody in the film business?" and he said "Oh, I think I...I've got a connection some[…]

Chili (Dorothy) Bouchier

[…]ith me and...anyway, he didn’t know, he thought of a lot of names and finally as we 53 Doris Zinkeisen (1898-1991) was a Scottish stage and costume designer and artist. were going to Venice to do some exteriors he saw my, my passport on the table and he said “Oh, your real name is Dorothy, tha[…]

Peter Montagnon

[…]h I love you dearly, your ideas are all wrong in your ideas and mistaken and it mustn't be in your hands. I was made, then the head of the head, head designate of the Open University productions, and started and we then had one year to plan it to plan the whole of the Open University from scratch, i[…]
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