[…]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[…]
[…]d doctor, right. Yes, I see, apparently. And this is when, when our budget was reduced by half and we had to come back to the office and sack several directors. And when I say sack, they were, lot of them were had been taken on as temporary staff. Therefore there was no problem, and we had to cut ba[…]
[…] was an American. And he ran it right the way through to pretty well to at the end of the war, I guess. But everybody else involved and all the other directors at that time and all the managers were all British. And they run it very much as as a separateRoy Fowler 12:36 unit. Obviously, […]
[…]n nature study subjects, which went into the cinemas. And she was very well known, well, quite famous, really, in that field. Then, of the other directors there, there were a number of people who, who became quite world figures, really. One was Stanley Hawes, who went with Grierson to Canada, a[…]
[…]mediately at the outbreak of warsGordon Hales 32:24 yes I put the Lion has wings in my letter because i had an idea that there were three directors who each did a separate sequence and i may or may not be wrong he did one right not but this was all very new to me then and i used to meet […]
[…] Throughout the 1930s he worked as Production Assistant, and Assistant Director at a variety of studios, including Gaumont British, MGM […]
[…] know, whether 1 Sir Kenneth Barnes (1878 -1957) was the director of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) from […]
[…]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[…]
[…]pictures.E.M. Smedley-Aston: No, no, that's quite true. Well I...the first studio I ever went into was Beaconsfield where there was a female Art Director, I think her name was Mary Brabham or something like that. Anyhow, she was a friend of the family and she said...well I think the studio ther[…]
[…] the set, able to be talked to directly by the director and instead of being 'the voice of God', became […]
