[…]as my start and I did that for about three years, four years, I think. Went in to editing, I was the programme editor on it, finally became a trainee Director and moved on from there. I: And this was in the Theatre Royal? R: This was in the Theatre Royal. The Theatre Royal was one of Glasg[…]
[…]s. DB: So the rep proper began in Dundee, yes? GG: In Dundee. My rep life began in Dundee, and that was fortnightly, and it was – well, the Director was Antony Page and he was quite ‘in-depth’ aboutPerformances, so you had to go away and write the background and all that sort of thing. Doi[…]
[…]the president of the union then was Anthony Asquith who was a very prominent film maker, he was kind of second only to Hitchcock really as an English director in the Thirties and was very active and of course, he came from that patrician political family the Asquith family so he had friends in high […]
[…]bsp; “The Yellow Rolls Royce” – Ascot race course story – worked with all three Art Directors: Elliott Scott, Billy Kellner, Vincent Korda.20:57 - &nb[…]
[…]in those days. And the whole thing was shot in, I think, five days. But what this necessitated was working practically till midnight every night, the director, guy called Red Davis American. He used to be asleep behind the set half the time this was going on. And of course, if you worked after half […]
[…]illett, Tom Milne, Leslie. All those are the people are those... I’m just trying tothink of all those people around at that time.SF: Who was then the Director of the BFI?That was Stanley Reed.Sheila Whitaker Page 16SF: Stanley Reed, yeah.And that was the time when the BFI was getting larger and[…]
[…]ff me. Leslie was wonderful and taught me everything about film. He said don't let them fuss you; the important thing is your eyes.RG: A very patient director was he?RJ: Well he was an actor and therefore understood that actors like to rehearse. There were film directors in those days who thought ac[…]
[…]diting as well around that sort of yeah. Well in those days those people a director very often customarily edited his own film. His or her own film. So tha[…]
[…]bsp;I saw Stan called Phillips. So if was the Met was the sort of managing director so he'd come up through the ranks. She'd been quite worked quite hard i[…]
