[…]gular soldier to all intents and purposes and had been to university and fought with some distinction in the First World War worked for Mick at  Ealing and indeed before then at Gaumont. And it's quite amusing that there was I understand at the old Gaumont  Studios, a long corridor, which […]
[…]en, after that I went on painting a bit and did the odd thing, and suddenly I got a call from my agent to say that she had heard that the designer at Ealing Studios was leaving and the post was vacant, and why didn't I go down and try? And I said, "Well I've never...I don't know anything about that![…]
[…] was because I was born there. SC: When you mentioned Hal just now, your brother, of course that was Howell Mason who was the general manager at Ealing Studios. UB: Yes that’s right, well when he and I went into our professional careers he took Hal Mason, Tinkler’s not a good name for a pr[…]
[…]me but for an actor to make his entrance and I'd entirely ruined the take.At Wembley I became interested in editing. I went into the cutting rooms at Ealing as a second assistant to Thorold Dickinson on a film called Perfect Understanding starring Gloria Swanson. It was very ironic title because eve[…]
[…]nd shoved into that. And that was where Sergei saw me.  14 minutes 5 seconds SC: So what happened in the war years? DM: I went to Ealing. SC: You went at the beginning of the war. You didn’t go to Ealing at the beginning of the war...? I suppose you did, because you worked o[…]
[…] the cable boy, and general thing, with Marcus Cooper. I think I was working for A.R.P. Films or A.R.P. Studios. They were renting Beaconsfield while Ealing was being built, and I went – we had two trucks – two sound trucks, designed for the desert, designed for big locations in America. One was onl[…]
[…] it was. It was the beginning. And and then what happened was that I heard from a lady and Mrs. Frewer who had opened a little photographic studio in Ealing to take color photographs. And she got onto me because I had If you know the name of neem, when the name was was a goodish name, and she said w[…]
[…] while on a propaganda film at Denham, One was waiting to be called up. Then Cavalcanti wanted me to go and cut a little film called Young Veteran at Ealing and apparently my work was satisfactory because they wanted me to go on and on and so I became a reserved occupation and I stayed at EalingSC: […]
[…] was off disc. Anyway we entered it for some amateur competition and we won. We got top billing Harry Watt there Harry Watt who subsequently mattered Ealing was the judge and gave us the top mar ks. Then we made a film because it was Festival of Britain 1951. We made a film called the Boston story. […]
[…]d so was another lovely continuity, who had been a continuity girl, Diana McNab, I don't know if you remember her?Oh Yes.She was working...She was at Ealing though wasn't she?She worked for David Rose at that time. Anyway, I was a sort of little secretary to a couple of the legal department. And whi[…]
