[…]se when I was about 13, I found that also having discovered that really wasn't learning anything very well took me away from that. And I went to high gates, where I stayed until I was eighteen fairly  interested in films, goes back a very long way. Because when I was about four or five, I was g[…]
[…]f you didn't make it, you could press a button and open it. But the idea was, if the machine slowed down for any reason - in other words, you'd got a gate fire, the solenoid would be de-energised and the weighted dowser would drop down and shut you down and also shut the motor off, the whole lot was[…]
[…] [chuckles], the magazines used to get chips in them, though I don't remember any scratching particularly - but they did, and you'd have to check the gate frequently. Now I know nowadays they do check the gates on Mitchells and everything frequently, but we didn't check the gates on a Mitchell perha[…]
[…]ortsmouth, a week at the Bijou, Southend, he was very good to me. Then a man called Lister Lawrence asked me if I'd do a picture which was at the old Gate Studio down at Borehamwood Station and it was run by a man called Joe Bamberger, a name to conjure with. A crook if ever there was one but a nice[…]
[…]rrect it, and on theshooting side they had a problem with the emulsion, you got emulsion build-up really badly. After every take you had to clean the gate out, because there would always be some emulsion in there. As time went on Fuji ...We reported back all these problems to Fuji so I think th[…]
[…]lm and what happened to that studio never never functioned anymore.Alan Lawson  29:59  That was the one that eventually became known as the Gate studio to do a right  by the railway.Ray Morse  30:04  That's right right outside the station.Alan Lawson  30:08  It was[…]
[…]exandra Palace like all of us on the, on the bus, on the bus from BH, the morning, the morning coach?Yes, I did. I got, I got the tube from Lancaster Gate. But just to tell you one thing, interesting thing about where I lived while I remember it, that it was called The Helena Club and the writer Mur[…]
[…]either agreed or improved on it. And I remember very well Jonah Jones, when we did The Stranger, I wanted the front door that he went up to to have a gate because I wanted to cut back on the crowd watching him and chatting together, because it fitted the music and the music fitted it. And he said ye[…]
[…]t, would it, that one?PM: It could be flooded – it had a six-foot wall round, and then the rest was asbestos, can you believe?DB: Yes, I can.PM: Corrugated iron and asbestos, and of course they could flood it and they used it for many jobs, you know. But the sewers they built along with rushing wate[…]
[…] burnt down. So everybody went off in different directions. We were still virtually allied to B & D, so first of all I found myself up at the Old Gate studio finishing off a Herbert Wilcox picture, after that I went over to the old Rock Studios where we continued making Paramount British quotas,[…]
