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[…]rks, and it and that structure really made it, really helped the film, and, and, and in the end, we it took us a while to get the cut right, but with George Fenton's amazing score and with the songs that are in it, and somehow, somehow we got it. We got there in the end, and we felt, I mean, it was,[…]
[…]shot and Twickenham and - er - a very happy experience and I used one of my old friends - two of my old friends from television - Assheton Gorton and George Jerkovich were the two - er - art directors on the movie. And they - they came along - and so I surrounded - I learnt by this time […]
[…]tor out for about four weeks and then I got a job in Rossie’s in Clapham, I think my mate, I’m not sure if Billy’s father worked in Rossie’s, I think George worked in Rossie’s and I got a job in Rossie’s as an apprentice, not really an apprentice more a trainee. And I remember - you know an ep[…]
[…]e electricians. [laughter] And getting on best of all with the lovely special effects chaps. Anything I wanted, I used to go down to George Leuenberger [ph], who is the most astonishing man, and get the special effects to make me, or give me or steal me whatever I wanted. And […]
[…]nd ‘Yeah, I’d love that’. So I go, and I was standing in the foyer of theCafé Royal and... Oh, I have to go back a little bit. I had met a guy called GeorgeStent [ph 35:24] this is before the war, just before the war, and I fell madly in lovewith George Stent [ph 35:28] and dear me if he doesn’t go […]
[…]al effects for King Solomon’s Mines.00:21:30 – 00:27:00 At 21 he took the job as stage hand; there was always a lot of overtime; LH met Paul Robeson, George Arliss, Margaret Lockwood at this time; other jobs were available at some of the other studios; the situation was bad in the studios at this po[…]
