[…]hese great, there was no photocopying, and the way the plan was copied from the designer to go to the scene master, the property master, the lighting engineer was that the girl, I, would do carbon copies.Yes.You know, you’d actually go all round the thing with a pencil, no Biros just yet, Biros were[…]
THE ACTT HISTORY PROJECT – CEDRIC DAWE, ART DIRECTOR.INTERVIEWER: ROY FOWLER.The copyright of the following recording is vested with the BECTU History project. It is the 19th of November 1991. We are in Chartridge in Buckinghamshire at the home of Cedric Dawe, an Art Director whose career in the ind[…]
[…]tewart and his PA, I was his PA, the floor manager called Nick Burrell-Davis, who was brother of Derek Burrell- Davis.Mm.Who was, by that time, an OB engineer. Sally Gillman, who is now Sally Askey.Mm.And who is, she was sec..., sort of production secretary.Mm.And she's now a, a PA, still working ac[…]
[…]inee floor manager actually. While I was a trainee designer, as you might say I had Steve Taylor as my assistant. Go to wildly wrong. Trouble with an engineer's I haven't either, because I got some vertical walls the glass door with with horizontal Glass Bead chaps it you can't use that door why not[…]
[…]because my father was getting one pound a week in the price of a postgraduate scholarship. And my mother who came from a fairly well to do successful engineering engineers, family cover off of marrying somebody who was broke continuous. So then they were came down from Cambridge, I think, Pa &[…]
[…]own, just people disappearing and what not. I mean my life was saved in the most ridiculous way. The first trip I did was in a Halifax and the flight engineer was so ill being thrown around allover the sky he just sat there and he was not prepared to do any more work. It was the very first trip we h[…]
[…]nbsp;the war became imminent, they all disappeared. And there was Mac Haynes who was the chief engineer as well. I think that's the whole lot. There were also two, one was running positive control and the […]
[…] continued my schooling in Harrow. Manny Yospa: When you left school you went straight into Kodak. Geoff Conway: No, I first went into some engineering. The war then started and I went into engineering over at Wembley and during that time the war just about finished and I got called up and[…]
