[…]d in Margate until the war; as a child DW would got to the cinema every week; very little of his early life had anything to do with his career in the film industry, when he left the army in 1947 he knew he didn’t want to work in an office; Southern Rail had a small film unit for training under Water[…]
[…]with ACT?A Through Ralph. Ralph knew Grierson and we spent any free time we had was at the cinema and Ralph had a book where he had a review of every film and he got to know Grierson even while he was working at the party headquarters.Q Was he then reviewing films for the Daily Worker or...A He[…]
[…]I did, and my anticipating cover, as a maintenance engineer member for a number of years, I was employed here, and also our maintenance engineers and film studios, and in the film business generally, are, as it were working as individuals. And it was not for many, many, many years later that I was i[…]
[…] I started work in the' office of the Automobile Association in St James's Street as an office boy.Fowler/Lawson: Oh, well how come you got into films?Bill Girdlestone: Well, I was the original film buff. I had a home cinema at about 12. A local sweet shop started to sell film, six feet a […]
[…] got into films? Bill Girdlestone: Well, I was the original film buff. I had a home cinema at about 12. […]
[…]he next thing i i took pictures in those days, the first job I had to do, I'll always remember I worked. We worked out in one four King Water Street, film house Water Street, just up the road. And I had to go to Marble Arch, where the Duchess of Kent no the Duchess of Gloucester. I was going to open[…]
[…] talking about your experience with John Houston What's the next film with you you would like to talk about. OSSIE […]
[…]he labs, I think it was Maxfield, I think, but we don't remember, definitely, got together with Jack Kiley one day, and we said, how fast do they run films now? And he said, Well, they taken 16 frames a second, and they reproduce them in the first run houses at about 80 or 90 feet a minut[…]
[…]e in and that attitude of having a Union level of manning was kind of core to how ITV was at the time and, later on in my career when I started doing film work, film news, for instance, was done with a three-man crew - lighting, sound and camera operator - unless it exceeded two minutes and the two […]
