[…] set, and then the mirror would detect, you know, whatever you want to add to it was very clever, and I learned to see having worked with him with an Elstree there Were that time amongst very highly respected special effects people. I mean, different sort of special effects we get now, which is very[…]
[…]e. And that began my being terribly interested in editing.I worked on a few more pictures at Ealing and the went to British International Pictures at Elstree which is still there and still Very much as they were in those days. That happened out of the blue. One of the people I'd written to years bef[…]
[…] because although I was freelance, I... Rodney Giesler: This is Elstree? Dicky Leeman: Yes. I worked, seemed to get a […]
[…] a lot of the other studios didn't you know - Elstree didn't. Nearly everybody went, some people were kept on […]
[…] at Ealing and the went to British International Pictures at Elstree which is still there and still very much as […]
[…]to frame.23.14 – 23.27] PM: I’m probably running out of context. DB: Yes. In the cv it says one or two jobs for MGM, about this time. Up at Elstree.PM: Yeah.DB: Or Borehamwood as we know it.PM: Yeah, again because of the making props and stuff like that I got a job with Alfred Junge, who w[…]
[…] wanted another chippy and things like that. And I lived in Eldon Avenue in those days, because although I was freelance, I...Rodney Giesler: This is Elstree?Dicky Leeman: Yes. I worked, seemed to get a run of good - a few films at Joe Rock's. And I can remember that they used to have a bus go once […]
[…] my notice, after the amalgamation of HMV and Columbia, somebody said ‘D P Field’s at a studio called British and Dominion Forms out at Boreham Wood, Elstree, go and see him. I think he might find you a job’. I went out there to see him. Now, most interesting, because D P Field was[…]
[…] John Morris was an editor and a fella called Bill Rowe was an editor. Now that is not Bill Rowe who (no, no)became er an eminent sound supervisor at Elstree. And the fellow in charge of the library’s name was John O’Kelly and he then went with the library when it moved to Rag Labs. And I think he’s[…]
[…]aded this Dept for a long time and they usedto go down to the Pond at Elstree proper and play bowls and of courselike ourselves later were doing all sorts […]
