[…]rst film was Harold Huth? and Chilli Boucher as a juvenile leads. In a film I think it was called Downstream with a chap called David Dunbar American director of wore a big Stetson hat and was marvellous at throwing knives and things like that. But he wasn't a very good director. Not at someone, not[…]
[…]brick wall so there i was on the scene with Cyril Crowhurst and and myself sort of in the upper layers of the department and i know that our managing director at that time was Kip Heron and he had i think found himself a little frustrated Because he felt that Cyril plain maybe wasone of the old scho[…]
[…]at was when the AKS Film Production Unit started, in 1942 and Freddie Young was there as the senior cameraman of course and Carol Reed was there as a director, and lots of other people, I can't remember their names at the moment but it'll come. And Freddie was there as the chief cameraman and I went[…]
[…]alled the junior maintenance engineer and I was sent to Newcastle-on-Tyne to the studio centre and I went there in 1936 when Sir John Reith was still director general and Noel Astbridge was chief engineer. And I went into digs up there and had a very happy time up there I should go back a little. wh[…]
[…] and later Head of Drama, Pebble Mill Philip Saville , Director of Boys from the Blackstuff, Gangsters. Roger Casst les […]
[…] went there in 1936 when Sir John Reith was still director general and Noel Astbridge was chief engineer. And I […]
[…] without cameramen they'd be much better Carol was an actor's director purely and simply. He was like Hitchcock he manipulated […]
[…] And it really is marvellous in the film now. No director in the world except Houston would have taken that […]
[…]ion lens in there. So I just put that on. So whatever Peter wanted me to hold, he said, Put your put your viewfinder on. And it was funny because the directors could never really see lenses.Unknown Speaker 12:45 ButUnknown Speaker 12:48 yeah, and so from Peter, then I, I left[…]
