[…] was off disc. Anyway we entered it for some amateur competition and we won. We got top billing Harry Watt there Harry Watt who subsequently mattered Ealing was the judge and gave us the top mar ks. Then we made a film because it was Festival of Britain 1951. We made a film called the Boston story. […]
[…]en, after that I went on painting a bit and did the odd thing, and suddenly I got a call from my agent to say that she had heard that the designer at Ealing Studios was leaving and the post was vacant, and why didn't I go down and try? And I said, "Well I've never...I don't know anything about that![…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]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.[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] that? Tilly Day: 'Sapphire' Sidney Cole: Oh, 'Sapphire' yes, at Ealing, yes. Tilly Day: Yes, and it was really before […]
[…] to turn out to be a 11 year stint at Ealing Studios. I worked in various capacities on a number of […]
[…] at all?C. D. I don’t think so, no. I don't know that side of it. We did another picture, mainly on location, following 'Blue Lamp” which was made at Ealing. We did ' Police Woman'. That was done on location in London. A normal good picture. Another picture in Kensington, again on location called 'L[…]
[…]me but for an actor to make his entrance and I'd entirely ruined the take.At Wembley I became interested in editing. I went into the cutting rooms at Ealing as a second assistant to Thorold Dickinson on a film called Perfect Understanding starring Gloria Swanson. It was very ironic title because eve[…]
[…] Cole: So you saw the birth as it were of Ealing Studios? Edward Carrick: Ye s . I t h i […]
