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[…] of many colleagues. There is particularly rich material on BIP Elstree in the early 1930s, with discussions of Robert Maxwell, […]

[…]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[…]

[…] He remained with Wilcox, moving to British and Dominions at Elstree and working on films such as Victoria the Great […]