[…]o clearly going in there the first few days and it was a bit like a cross between a boarding school and the army a bit. DB: We are talking about Ealing, are we? Ealing studios? PB-C: Yes, sorry. I was based as a holiday relief as Assistant Cameraman, at the Television Film Studio, yes at E[…]
[…] was at the television film studios because the Film Library was part of the Film Department and the Film Department was based at the film studios at Ealing. And so, I went for an interview and I think there were four people interviewing me. There was obviously part of the management of […]
[…]istorian whose work focuses on the preservation of films from the silent era. He won an Academy Honorary Award in 2010.
I: Yes, he also worked at Ealing so it might have been at Ealing that you CB: No, it was definitely at GainsboroughI: At Gainsborough?CB: At either?
I: Islington Poole Street[…]
[…]as that? That wasabout 1930. Again, I all in that area. And Stan Double. Oh yeah, he was a chief engineer there. And he had been contracted to instal Ealing. And he promised me a job as this boy again. And I went over there and couldn't find Stan and got myself a job on one of the cement mixers near[…]
[…]or some people with other human attributesNorman Swallow I remember, we're now 1956 obviously Suez I remember it soon after that you had an office in EalingDavid Attenborough: A long, long time after that, what happened then was, if we revert to what we were doing all of us as producers and what the[…]
[…]t time was, I think, radio and film critic for The Herald. And he got me a couple of interviews, one with Bill Hammond, another one with Bill Lott at Ealing. Well, Bill Hammond said, Well, you know nothing here at the moment. I'll let you know when anything comes up. Of course, you had to be a tea b[…]
[…]ck Harris, and we became great pals because I found Jack Harris his first flat in Boston Manor. I'd moved from Wimbledon Park after I got married, to Ealing and I lived in Boston Manor and I found Jack Harris a flat. And his wife was Wyn Barry and she came to me one day with a rubber band with lots […]
[…] remember it soon after that you had an office in Ealing David Attenborough: A long, long time after that, what […]
[…] I'd moved from Wimbledon Park after I got married, to Ealing and I lived in Boston Manor and I found […]
[…]tant and what was the procedure to step up to be a cameraman? Well, I was an assistant for about nine years, I think. And I mean, it's amazing place healing because there were I mean, I never went to film school. But Ealing was my film school, really because there were 90 and at least 60 Film crews […]
