[…]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[…]
[…] 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 […]
[…]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[…]
[…] to get status for sound? He had more personality that I had.Alan Lawson : He was a forbidding man.Peter Birch : He was at B&D, wasn't he? Out at Elstree.Alan Lawson : That I didn't know.Peter Birch : Yes he was there, our Stan Jolly.Alan Lawson : Now, was there much difference when you switched[…]
[…]t at Aeolian Hall, but she heard of a vacancy going for a secretary to the Administrative Assistant of the Near East Department out at Aldenham, near Elstree, and she arranged an interview for me. I can’t think how I got that sort of job, which was so unlike me and I wouldn’t want at all, worki[…]
[…]nd to tell the truth, I was glad when I was able to get away from from Williamson's and start at the Pathe Laboratory which should just been built at Elstree by the British International picture Corporation Ralph Bond 8:20 this question of temperature Bert there was no such thing as[…]
