[…]chester at that point?AM: No, this was still based back at Kodak House in Hemel Hempstead. And the Export Trade Sales department was responsible for dealing with sales of Kodak products to countries where there wasn’t actually a Kodak company per se, but a distributor. So, I was responsible for moti[…]
[…]d of musical hand is Lincoln. Pinewood Gaines, we're at Shepherds Bush. We seem to have a finger in every almost every student in England. Of course, Ealing was not in words Empire, but his brother doc Matheson was assistant to the great musical director of healing. There's no mitochondrial. AnyRodn[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] John Seabourne to your table and start him because gradually nobody else spoke and John would be telling one of his often outlandish stories about stealing horses during the 1914-18 war and all that. Were you all at one studio in those days?Reggie Beck: Walton.Wyn Ryder: John was permanen[…]
[…] After about five months, I started shopping around and this was in the summer of 1962, I saw an advert in the newspaper for a BBC film department at Ealing was taking on temporary staff for the editing department. So I ran the number to find out what it was all about. And a former editor named ALF […]
