[…]ugh the day every day, basically. And there's not this overall thing of trying to make recognisably identifiable pictures like say, for instance, the Ealing comedies, they had a wonderful thing holding them together. And it was it was you couldn't do that if you said, let's go and make an eating com[…]
[…]vid had started up this independent brand, which you may have heard with the Rank Organisation. And I'd also had feelers from what's his name down at Ealing ? Linda Wood 9:41Balcon. Donald Wilson 9:41Balcon,to go and join him as a producer. Speaker 2 9:44Can I […]
[…]k at the studio, Basil Dean did, and said, "Could I borrow the sound crew to go further over into the Tyrol?" He had a second unit working there from Ealing Studio, they'd been doing some exterior stuff and background stuff for a picture called Autumn Crocus! And Michael Balcon agreed, so that we we[…]
[…]ch then had a great many studios, something like 13 at its peak, I recall, so that people were always coming down from Gainsborough from the bush, or Ealing. And in turn, occasionally, we made expeditions there, I certainly went to Ealing. So the number of shooting units went up and down as rank pro[…]
[…] were all in the same office so you learnt as you went along, became more useful obviously as you learnt it. In point of fact, Olive and Ronnie were dealing with the artists all the time, but particularly they had a lot to do with the younger artists, the new ones coming in. So that included all the[…]
[…]was the cameraman, theoperator was a guy called Moray Grant. He did an awful lot of the Carry On films, or should I say Ealing films, not the Carry Ons. Wally Byatt was the focus puller. John Higgins at one time and I learnt, I was with them as […]
[…] all went over to Pinewood. And then I stayed there the rest of the time. Except going once or twice - once to Wembley I think, [corrects herself] to Ealing I think, and apart from that to MGM.Sidney Cole: Oh they had lovely studios at MGM.Carmen Dillon: Yes.Sidney Cole: Elstree, yes.Carmen Dillon: […]
[…] say, there was the people who were working for Rank who then went to Korda. It was the era of Lean, Reed, and Powell and Pressburger. And then later Ealing which we were benevolent towards. But the British cinema at that time was very over praised in our opinion. The media such as they were at that[…]
