[…]creative filming, but with great simplicity and actually work faster. You haven't got a total answer lunch, see, and for instance, you said the Chief electrician, John Cameron. I want to get on this wall. Long shadows out further back cover the whole wall. Then flag off there. That's it. Now, Chief […]
[…] to Woman (1923). He entered the film industry as an electrician, working in a variety of studios including Wembley, Cricklewood […]
[…]ter than others, it had nothing to do with the ACTT actually, had to do with the ETU. Yorkshire had to employ, as a result of being set up, the electricians that had been working for ABC in Manchester at Didsbury. And when ABC became Thames Television and Howard Thomas took the best peop[…]
[…]to do dinners and things like that. And she used to get people round, the workers in the studio round there for their meals, like the 'chippies', the electricians and people like that. And I remember once going into this place, and I suppose I'd have been about ten or eleven years old, to take some […]
[…]call you choke to death rather than make a coffee. And one day, he had a very bad day, I think somebody up for the what, after the bell had gone. One electrician up on the top rail, it was a big set. And on the top rail, this electrician coughed, he couldn't help cough, and victus several, shut it u[…]
[…] which was ‘Fu-u-ckin’ electricians!’ and every time I saw an electrician or had to have a typewriter moved and an […]
[…]id actually come to a stop for that, until you know, everybody said, ah don’t be so ridiculous, you know, let her get on. And they forever, the electricians were forever threatening to pull the plugs on this because of this and because of that, it was a nightmare. And I was always worrie[…]
[…]ounds a week, I think. Certainly three pounds something a week. And I managed to buy a little car. I bought a Peugeot for five pounds from one of the electricians. And I did 10,000 miles on this Peugeot , believe it or not, and sold it at the end of 10,000 miles for four pounds 15. But I remember, m[…]
[…]ime I was an assistant director. I had tried everything, I had been a third, I had been a second. For a few minutes I had been a first, but the electrician, on the film that I was… I can’t remember what film it was that I went on as a first. When I said “Quiet please” on the floor all th[…]
[…]ms, weren’t there? Western and RCA – RCA started. And to help them do all the installations and things they took a couple of charge hand electricians called Bert Ross and Charlie Tasto and they helped me to do all the installations and that. And then they graduated to mixers they […]
