[…], I mean I'm talking personally about him to you this afternoon on the whole, but I think probably Winnington was writing about him, his influence at Ealing studios, in which case it probably wasn't fair, you know. But if you pursue the metaphor and take away the puritan for a moment then the patern[…]
[…] she really gave me hell, Peggy, she won't mind my saying so now, but she did. First of all we were at Worton Hall for a short time. Then we moved to Ealing with was ARP.Roy Fowler: ATPPeter Tanner: No even before it was ATP it was ARP which was to do with RKO. It was that transition betwe[…]
[…]y, you must do all these kind of things," and they were a wonderful influence on me. And later on I think - perhaps I can jump a little - I worked at Ealing studios and having finished Titfield Thunderbolt, Vivienne (I can't remember her second name) said to me, "You must go and see a very nice man […]
[…] so I went off to see him, and he said in his rather pompous way "We’re starting a film studio. Perhaps you would like to go down and see it, it’s at Ealing". So I said "Oh yes I would like to". He said "Well go down and look at it, it’s not open yet and when we start, perhaps you would like to be t[…]
[…]I went up a notch to that, then they shut down Lime Grove completely , and I was very lucky because a pal of mine who was a camera operator worked at Ealing Studios, and he phoned me up and said 'you can come here'. So I went to Ealing, which was a great break because at Gaumonts at Lime Grove the r[…]
[…]ing Reginald Denham Denham spelt like the studio is and Charles Hosse H O S S E I think I'm in right but Charles Hosse he made after all famous films Ealing the children's Hue and Cry That's right. Yes later but but if we go back to Walton I can't remember the name of the film but I was the assistan[…]
[…]n a very good film with Basil, which I remember...Sidney Cole: Which was that?Tilly Day: 'Sapphire'Sidney Cole: Oh, 'Sapphire' yes, at Ealing, yes.Tilly Day: Yes, and it was really before it's time, because it was about the coloured question, you know.Sidney Cole: Yes I know[…]
[…]tor, and the best way to be a director was via editing. Because at that time there was David Lean, there was Charlie Crichton, Charlie Frend, all the Ealing people, who had come from editors and were then directing. So, that... And I have... I suppose, as you say, it was before feminism or whatever,[…]
