[…]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[…]
[…]storian 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, y[…]
[…]p;big success. It was before my time. So it must have been dark red roses must have been about 1929. Any after Wembley, you went to? Yeah. He went to Ealing up to Wembley.Unknown Speaker  20:51  Yes. Started on there. They just as the workshops we laid out or workshops out put the game thr[…]
[…]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,[…]
[…] 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. […]
[…]mixed in a booth. They used. To come out to talk to on the set. Jemmy Dooley was sound camera Jack Dooley's brother who was a still man. Elstreeer at Ealing Jemmy Dooley dear old Jones was still studio manager. And the famous Elkins brothers. They are both. Taffy Elkins and electrician. His brother […]
[…] cameraman by now. In fact very early on in my career the ACT had an employment bureau even then and one of the jobs they got me was a week’s work at Ealing studios in the camera department where I worked as clapper loader for Ronnie Neame. I used to hang his overcoat up in the morning, load the mag[…]
[…] while on a propaganda film at Denham, One was waiting to be called up. Then Cavalcanti wanted me to go and cut a little film called Young Veteran at Ealing and apparently my work was satisfactory because they wanted me to go on and on and so I became a reserved occupation and I stayed at EalingSC: […]
[…]d so was another lovely continuity, who had been a continuity girl, Diana McNab, I don't know if you remember her?Oh Yes.She was working...She was at Ealing though wasn't she?She worked for David Rose at that time. Anyway, I was a sort of little secretary to a couple of the legal department. And whi[…]
[…]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 […]
