[…]ional in Hollywood who used to come and lecture at the museum.SPEAKER: M11And uh uh. At school as well. And uh all these people they would get an art director. Some of the various art directors of that time to come and give lectures at night school and USC and uh.SPEAKER: M5But it was an early cours[…]
[…]ly that but they were so keen on making the best use of me and me getting the best out of it that I was put on the floor as a second assistant to the director and then put into the cutting room on the same film. And so I learnt an enormous amount. The very first film I worked on as an assistant was […]
Vernon Sewell (film director) 4/7/1903-21/6/2001 by admin — last modified Aug 12, 2008 02:08 PM BIOGRAPHY: Vernon Sewell began his […]
[…]lots and action sequences! My temporary appointment with Films of Scotland may also have come about due to the good relationship I developed with its director H Forsyth Hardy during the Film Festival selection committee viewings and by willingly helping him out on a “stunt” he came up with for the P[…]
[…]use they were building we went to Stoll's Studio at Cricklewood and we made a film there. Again I can't remember the title, but Sinclair Hill was the director and he also made one at Shepherd's Bush later on with a girl named Sari Maritza which was called Greek Street.John Taylor: What about the oth[…]
[…]I was going to ask, what was the reaction of your parents and did they have any connection with the film business.Alan Lawson: Well my father was the director of publicity for I think at that time Universal Films and he'd been working in the film business since 1917. My mother before the family came[…]
[…]ss, Stoll Studios, Cricklewood". So I got on the tram with my portfolio under my arm, went to Stoll Studios, where I met Clifford Pember, who was art director to Herbert Wilcox. He was a well-known stage designer - he'd designed a number of stage productions in New York and a number in London as wel[…]
Alan Lawson 0:00 the copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Pieter de Normanville, documentary film director, interviewer, is John Taylor, recorded on the 28th of February 1991. With interjections from his wife, Sarah Erulkar side one.John Taylor 1:11 &n[…]
[…]Sidney Cole: Yes, so...he had a, kind of, extra parent in you and your mother?Tilly Day: Oh yes, he was a dear!Sidney Cole: What other directors... did you ever work with David Lean?Tilly Day: No, I knew him very well. I knew him as a cutter.Sidney Cole: But I know David has[…]
