[…]ean, my exact contemporaries. In my promotion, there was Claude Miller, who's who's done reasonably well. Not many others seem to have become feature directors though, of that particular motion. But as long as like, Oh, no, was the one after me and he he's done well,Rodney Giesler 5:30 &[…]
[…]so I stayed in Wembley for a long, long time.Sidney Cole: What was your actual title? What was your job?Carmen Dillon: By then I was an assistant art director.Sidney Cole: Yes.Carmen Dillon: Almost immediately. Because I had to get it set into it. But I had a very dear little man who was trying to c[…]
[…]ree and it was hammer. We all to Robert hammer enormously. He was our line director an excellent director. He died unfortunately because yes because Eric moreover wo[…]
[…] was he often got people who as they say today, took him to the cleaners. And maybe he had a manager who er was doing that. I do know that one of the directors of the company, because I saw a book about what they called the ‘pirate buses’ of the late twenties and my father used to run a bus service […]
[…]omeone, and it was just a local, father of one of my friends happened to know Leslie Parkin, who at that time was with PFF, one of the joint managing directors, and arranged for me to go and see him.PFF?Production Facilities Films, which was the holding company for the Rank Organisation. I mean all […]
[…] they need someone in the cuttingroom at Elstree. I'd never heard of the cutting room. I'd heard ofediting but I always thought editing was where the director, I'd read alot of books by Pudovkin and people and they'd all been sitting therewith film round their neck or in their hand and I thought the[…]
[…]ilm printer and my first job was to print the rushes for Ernie Palmer, the American cameraman -they were nearly all Americans, there were two Americandirectors, American cameraman, Continental cameraman, all that sort of thing - and I had to print the rushes. And one of the first jobs I did was to p[…]
[…] Anyway, there was a sort of group of… one casting director at each major studio and they worked principally through […]
[…] afterwards they'd taken it away. Well, in those days the director cut his picture. He always had a negative cutter […]
