Reginald (Reggie) Beck

[…] he knew how to impress people like, the famous man who died recently, Orson Welles.Wyn Ryder: They were all done at Denham?Reggie Beck: No Elstree, EMIp.7Wyn Ryder: Did you have a favourite studio?Reggie Beck: Denham.Wyn Ryder: Elstree worst of all?Reggie Beck: No Walt[…]

Madeline Smith

[…]a day or two, maybe even one day. That's something about Hammer they were incredibly quick.  Mike Dick  1:03:32  was it Elstree?  Madeline Smith  1:03:33  Elstree. Tragically, I'd never worked at Bray by the river. What a wonderful studio. […]

Renee Glynne

[…]was for television as I understand it.RENÉE GLYNNE: Yeah, yeah, yeah.DARROL BLAKE: Shepperton, possibly?RENÉE GLYNNE: No. They were one-hour films at Elstree, which was then called ... whatever it was called ... ATV I think.DARROL BLAKE: Oh, I see. Actually, filming in a television studio.RENÉE[…]

Waris Hussein

[…];Waris Hussein  1:09:18  Have I bypassed Henry the Eighth? My mind's going!  Darrol Blake  1:09:23  Elstree. Waris Hussein  1:09:25  Chronologically, I think I have. Darrol Blake  1:09:28  Yes, I thou[…]

Virginia McKenna

[…]me; that was my first film. And then I did a film called Father’s Doing Fine (1952),[17] which was a comedy about families and that sort of thing, at Elstree, ABC.[18] And a very famous person as a director was also an actor: Richard Attenborough. He was in that, Brian Worth, Heather Stannard [Thatc[…]

Lois Singer

[…] location. You couldn't go back and do two or three takes but there was some editing to be done on this programme. And she took me with her to ATV at Elstree where the editing facilities were and whifusion used. And I was amazed. We sat in front of this machine with this enormous width of videotape […]

Paul Fox

[…]s Thatcher realised that the trade union practices in ITV were appalling.  I mean, Lew Grade paid them…well in order to keep production going at Elstree, Lew paid the unions extra when ITV went into colour, something that the BBC certainly didn’t do.  And so the practices were dreadful.&nb[…]
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