[…] when I came back after the war it was more organised.SC: In those days when you started I suppose a lot of people had to invent their own method of dealing with things.DM: Well they did sheets. No I can remember when I went to the studio, passing the table and there was a sheet in there. I remember[…]
[…]s we did was the see the windmill on which they test out models of air aircraft and I remember being quite fascinated by Dallas Bower's way of dealing with thisStephen Peet 27:29 Windmill, or a wind tunnel?Alan Izod 27:31 No, it's it's, it's it's neither. It's a r[…]
[…]ll that camouflage.Tom Peacock: Yes you're right, you're right.Sidney Cole: And also, the other thing they used to do I remember, cause when I was at Ealing they had a film which was based on that, they used to make explosive horse dung and leave it in the roads.Tom Peacock: There you are, that's th[…]
[…]e days they were rather frowned upon by the bourgeois.Roy Fowler: How about the theatre?Eddie Dryhurst: Pardon?Roy Fowler: Did your parents have any dealings with the theatre, did they enjoy going to that?Eddie Dryhurst: None at all. My mother was a farmer's daughter, my father was a hotelier's son.[…]
[…]ogical services, or something at the COI for a while, where I was intimately concerned with the production, end of the output of the COI, when I was dealing on a day to day basis with a very large account with one particular lab. And yes, I do like dealing with labs, and I think it's absolutely esse[…]
[…]sp;- but he was very nice and spoke very friendly to me and I had this silly meeting - I have an idea it was that actor whom I loath who did a lot of Ealing films - Tommy Trinder - whom I absolutely - you know he was very brash and he had been insulting and I had a set-to with Tommy Trinder and have[…]
[…] Photography (early owners of the site which would later become Ealing Studios) and G.B. Samuelson’s operation at Worton Hall in […]
[…] as Ivor Montagu and John Grierson. When Thorold moved to Ealing Studios in 1933 to edit Gloria Swanson’s Perfect Understanding, […]