[…]day of working that don't have to lick the film. scrape it off with a piece of hacksaw blade. And I in years after I remember, was working with other directors. One in particular who was a well known documentary director, who used to lick it first off you both know who he was, what you would d[…]
[…]ack Limelight out at ABC Studios, Boreham Wood, I said any chance of getting the job of your stand in. He said you'11 have to go along to the casting director. He said I'll speak to him. He came back the next night and said go along and see somebody called Anderson, and this chap obviously didn't wa[…]
[…] after night was a really nice man was an art director at Gainsborough. Now the appalling thing is that his […]
[…] my diploma, the art school didn't give degrees in those days so I had a diploma, from Central School and I wrote around, I wrote to lots of film art directors, some were very kind and wrote back. And one of them, my father oddly enough had known during the war, he worked in Ambulances during the Bl[…]
[…]he princes arm of two pound 10 a week. I went back to them in the May of 39 at two pounds 10 per week, and stayed there as secretary to the publicity director for three years and again, Fox British lives, but they did get me across to Pinewood to work with Hugh Alexander, who would publicity for 20t[…]
[…] a fellow named - I think he's been an assistant director, but he was assistant studio manager, Frank Covern or […]
[…] teachers for conductingAlexander Faris: Richard Austin was the conducting teacher to whom I owe quite a lot I must say. And Sir George Dyson was the director, and Herbert Howells was the great Composition teacher of those days. But I eventually went to the director and said I don't think I'm doing […]
[…]you in tomorrow," you know and you'd have to come in - all in the pound. I got, let's see - there was a fellow named - I think he's been an assistant director, but he was assistant studio manager, Frank Covern or Frank Cohen as he was then. He's a very nice bloke and I think he's still around in the[…]
[…]se days hug each other today, people like Ossie Morris, Ronnie Neame, Carmen Dillon and John Cox was head of sound there, Roy Kellino, cameraman, the directors were Al Parker who afterwards became an agent and Alex Bryce, a Scotch director. I was still in my digs but we used to be able to have wonde[…]
[…]as actually directing it or producing it? TD: The principal Producer was man called Richard Broad, who was one of the very great ITV documentary directors of the time, [who] now lives in the West of Ireland; if you want to interview him you have to travel over to Ireland because he never comes […]
