[…]ver going to make it there and so I left. And I was out of work for...I suppose it must be a good six or nine months, until I managed to get a job at Elstree at I think I've said, 25 shillings a week was it on the note there?Roy Fowler: I think you did yes. Let me ask you about that though. It […]
[…]her the cutting room wasn’t expanding, I don’t know anyway.No.I think I gave up. And also of course, a big point about going to GBI was that it was a Elstree which made it a very much more civilised journey for me from Hendon, and Ithink actually I was going to get a rise as well so all in all the..[…]
[…]is day. He used to make all these props out …ALAN LAWSON: Papier mâché, wasn’t it?HARRY MILLER: Papier mâché stuff and, you know. Down at Elstree he was in great demand, he was in the property department there, but he made up all these sort of imitation stuff. He made hedges, where[…]
[…]y at the age of 15, I suppose, for about six months. And then my mother got me a job. She still has had influence in the studios a little bit. And at Elstree Studios. There was a company character called Joe Grossman, who was the studio manager. And Joe gave me a job as a dog's body at Elstree. I wa[…]
[…]20 all the various duties I got to know who to write Bertie's e was at Denham although I never met her he was one I wrote to and Bill Haggis at Elstree I wrote too. I forget who was in charge of B and D the time I know Freddie Young was photographing which I talk about in the moment[…]
[…]tinteresting. I was expecting to be a clapperboy, I thought that was thebeginning of everything. He said well they need someone in the cuttingroom at Elstree. I'd never heard of the cutting room. I'd heard ofediting but I always thought editing was where the director, I'd read alot of books by Pudov[…]
[…]L.P. Williams : Well they didn't know what to do you see but what happened was that they were, they converted the stages at British International, at Elstree, and built about three new stages I think, three or four. And it was...well actually they were doing about eight, a block of uh...either six o[…]
[…]members as projectionists throughout the country. It was easy enough to organise, if they could have got them, because there were two big groups. The Elstree group had a load of cinemas, was it? And the Rank group - I don't know what they were. So they, the NATKE, they wanted their members in to run[…]
