[…]earer or Léonide Massine, who I met later when I worked on Tales of Hoffmann which I suppose was quite mind blowing in those days. Anyway…DB: But the Gainsborough films were also made in Islington, weren’t they? Did you nip up there?PM: Once. I was again sent up there to help out on an Eve Boswell s[…]
[…]e I met her she was getting a pound a day as an extra, and it was a film we made half of it at Islington; it belonged to Gaumonts but...MS. It' s not Gainsborough, is it?PS. No, Islington Studios. Yes, Gainsborough...MS. They've just rehabilitated that, they've just got it going again.PS. And that's[…]
[…]wler: He was also in charge of the studio fire brigade.E.M. Smedley-Aston: Yes, yes. That was really...Will Hay did a film subsequently for Gainsborough called Where's that Fire? And I'm sure that Frank then was scenario at Gainsborough and I'm sure they put in some actual gags which are p[…]
[…] a contract with Sidney Box and that was immediatelyfollowing 'Temptation Harbour’. And with that I moved down to Shepherd's Bush to do a picture for Gainsborough. I think it was all Sidney Box’s in those days. That was in 1947. In 1946 I left Welwyn and I was to go to Shepherd's Bush with Sidney Bo[…]
[…] then. I think he came in later.
Came in later.
Yes.
Right. So who would it have been, who...
Because then, a whole lot of people... When Gainsborough closed, was it Gainsborough or Shepherd’s Bush or whatever it was closed, a whole lot of people from there came over and took the jobs aw[…]
[…]e went, I don't know if you've ever been to Lime Grove Studios, I think it was the only studio I've ever been to where, oh I think it was the same at Gainsborough, the stages were on top of each other. So when you went up in the lift the doors opened and you looked right into a set, it was fabulous,[…]
[…] going onto the stage was wonderful. It was like going onto a circus. Whilst at BIP I was hired out as a camera assistant with Walter Blakely to Gainsborough Poole St on a film called the Stronger Sex which was the first film after the great big fire at Gainsborough Poole Street. The […]
[…]ly and then was evacuated to Australia, where Iwent to school there. And during the war I came back to England and that’s where I gotmy first job, at Gainsborough Studios, as studio manager’s secretary.1: You just sort of went there and, you know, applied for a job and...?Yes. I was looking for a jo[…]
