[…]hat was there as well Dennisand Roy Field. That was the that was a group. But I was I was given a contract with Pinewood and I Bert Easy, who was the head of the camera department. He put me back on the floor again because he he thought I'd stop moaning about all these tests and stuff that we were d[…]
[…]at you hadn't overspent. Before any film at Ealing started there was a meeting called in the restaurant there, which had a big round table, and every head of every department had to go there with your budget made out and presented and had to justify it. And it was incredible, you'd go there and you'[…]
[…]o BIP and in charge there was the Supervising Art Director, Clarence Elder who liked my work and he said "I will give you a job in a years' time. Go ahead and do some designs for films and so forth, whatever I wanted to do" So I went back within the day, after my first appointment. Again that year I[…]
[…] thing had stopped, that's all there was to that you see. But he wouldn't have it. So he said, "I'm going to phone up the producer in the studio" the head of the studio. So he phoned up, and they said said, "Well wait down there and do it again, send her back and take another train, try again."So th[…]
[…]in the ACTT History Project, copyright 1989. The date is the 25th September 1989 and the interview is with Norman Fisher by Roy Fowler. We're at ACTT head office. Norman, good morning. The first question is usually when and where you were born?Norman Fisher: I was born in 1917, July 18th, at Ecclest[…]
[…]er] I was playing a small part in it, the boy I suppose. I'll always remember this because they put me into a trunk on the set and I screamed my head off at being shut in this box and I think the prop man took over afterwards and had to bang on the roof, I suppose you might say that was my intr[…]
[…]g to do. Or lying under the, the dining room table, going to sleep and going to work. Because I used to go from Ilford to Liverpool Street on the overhead railway, and then Liverpool Street to Ealing Broadway on the tube and then a number 65 bus to the studio, and that was travelling.How did you est[…]
[…]ponsible for all the university buildings. And so we lived in Cambridge from then on. I had a free education at a posh school because my aunt was the headmistress of it. [laughter] It was an expensive school which I would never have gone to otherwise, so partly, my accent is partly a result of that.[…]
[…]at at you doing. I said I've fallen fowl with Dean. He'd also fallen fowl of Dean and he said oh you ought to go and see dear old AGD West who'd been head of the sound department at Ealing who'd also fallen fowl of Dean and I said what's he doing. He's with Baird Television, he's looking for somebod[…]
[…]e who wants to get into the publicity department, perhaps you'd be good enough to see him and slammed the phone down. He said I' m sending you to the head of publicity, he gets rid of me, so another page boy was summoned. Incidentally Johnny Goodman could have been the pageboy because he won't mind […]
