[…]d he was going in his own car and he phoned up especially to ask Ernest Irving if they would let him, as he wasn’t with him. I think we were going to Elstree, and he said “If go straight there will they let me if I’m not with you?” So Ernest said you’ll probably find that when you get there they’ll […]
[…]th you and do it. Simple as that. I mean Iwouldn’t recommend the job to anybody, although I have trained a few girls.1: Then, as I say, you went into Elstree, ABPC at that time.And I was there for a long time. And then I mean I was so bored with being on The Avengers, I left and did a picture c[…]
[…] worried in life in general that a word of encouragement does it but I was thrilled to bits about that. I was at Gainsborough Studios, BIP, which was Elstree, Denham because I did the dances and a lot of 6 the movement for The Thief Of Baghdad, which is when Korda first knew me.And the first ti[…]
[…]Yes. And that took me right out of Soho, I mean one was working such unearthly hours on those getting them out, and that was the sort of great day of Elstree when everybody was making television half hour films, they were terrible. And all, you know, DouglasFairbanks. I mean Elstree was the... […]
[…]ambition, this is what I really wanted to do when I came out of the airforce, Everley Gregg said, they were making Great Expectations at that time at Elstree and she said if you come down I'll take you out to Elstree onto the set because she knew David Lean. And at least I could go out there and mee[…]
[…]t, yes.Albert Critoph 39:34 John Abbott, I'm not sure whichAbbott it was, but he was a sound mixer at Associated British studios at Elstree.Manny Yospa 39:42 John Abbott is the camera man. Albert Critoph 39:44 I beg your pardon. I've just been booked ri[…]
[…] did 2nd unit on that. The last thing I really did was 2nd unit and again the stunt stuff on Return to OzSC: Where was that shot?DM: That was at Elstree, a studio I don't like.SC: Why didn't you like that as a studio?DM: It was too higgledy-piggledy. It wasn't kept very clean and it was such a […]
