[…] 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[…]
[…] Balcon 3:06 Very early on, when I was very, very small indeed, I can't be exact about how small but very small, I was taken to Gainsborough Studios in Islington, where I went onto the film set and saw, I think it was a Pash dance ( ?), I can't remember even what the film was, […]
[…]hey wanted a portrait of Greta Gynt over the mantelpiece, for a film called 'Dear Murderer' which was going to be made at Islington, I think it was - Gainsborough anyway. And so they asked me if I'd do it and I said, "Yes," of course I would and I went over and met Greta Gynt and posed her in the st[…]
[…]r whoever it might be, to all one of the studios where we might be working. Sometimes I had to go on my own to to the studio, I remember going to the Gainsborough studios to shepherds, Bush to supervise a very nice pianist whose name I forgotten teaching somebody some star. It might have been the fa[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]n I got there because he putHensley and all the other Art Directors in the Gainsborough Art Departmentinto blowing up his film because he couldn't draw. You see you didn't haveto&n[…]
[…]k.CC: Very well.SC: That was one of the early pictures which made you realise what a really good actor Dirk Bogarde was . Having been in someof those Gainsborough potboilers, very successful ones a film like Hunted gave him a bit more scope.CC : At that particular time he was absolutely fed up with […]
[…]that particular film. We were never taken on because it wasn't big enough, the company. If you're Gaumont British or Gainsborough, then you will be taken on the staff. But so after that, I mean, I had this wonderful time of learning about films, having to work fast, […]
[…]arce. Yeah, and obviously, $25,000 for a, b and c is a great deal of money. It could have been, itSpeaker 2 32:25 would have been because Gainsborough closed about 19, 4950, and this was a couple of years before. Yeah, there must have been, No, I'veSpeaker 1 32:33 never been […]
[…]His first film was Victory shot on Salisbury Plain, directed by Wetherell; FY then worked on various other assignments including three two-reelers at Gainsborough with Ivor Montagu, starring Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester and Harold Warrender; FY describes shooting the Gainsborough films.00:17:05[…]
