[…]orse 16:48 just called Astor HouseAlan Lawson 16:58 I see on your your kind of List of big studios you worked inflicker filmsdealing withwhat looks like a filmRay Morse 17:12 Flicker films. Well, it was an old sort of glass place almost like a greenhouse. I […]
[…]o with Mickey Balcon?Peter Birch : He was the big-shot you know, we kowtowed to him and gave him all the respect he was entitled to. No, we had more dealing with Chan [Chandos] Balcon on the set. Then they had another Balcon who ran a camera. Another Balcon brother. He was a cameraman but I never wo[…]
[…]vid had started up this independent brand, which you may have heard with the Rank Organisation. And I'd also had feelers from what's his name down at Ealing ? Linda Wood 9:41Balcon. Donald Wilson 9:41Balcon,to go and join him as a producer. Speaker 2 9:44Can I […]
[…]rath lane and he was the M.A. in right. And then of course he went to Ealing didn't he. I think training and a different parent came over and director […]
[…]nce is phenomenal, I mean it’s extraordinary. So we just, we had a lot of trouble, you know, as acouple, for a while, but particularly in the sort of Ealing – not Ealing – in the Elstree kind of area where Peter’s parents lived and it was always a very strained business.Peop[…]
[…]s can do that under the present system. But still, in those days it could and I went across to Further Education, which was then at Villiers House in Ealing. No it wasn’t, it was in... it was in... Threshold.Kensington? Threshold.[1:15:50]Yes, Threshold House on Shepherd’s Bush Green.On the Green, y[…]
[…]ery well known in the business. And they disagreed, and consequently was split up partnership. Barker moved to No.1 Soho Square and also retained the Ealing Studios. Well Ealing Studios then was, you might say, just a greenhouse. Two rough outside buildings, only used as dressing rooms. There was an[…]
