[…] major studios: Ealing, Shepherd’s Bush, Pinewood and Denham, there was Highbury, where John Croydon made those excellent little supporting pictures, […]
[…]tion I think he was so anxious about what was happening, that he took it out on me, because it was a nerve racking night. I walked home to my digs in Highbury, from theatre in the blackout with bombs falling. Got up the next morning and went to Kings Cross, but it was very nasty. War went on. We wou[…]
[…] did was with Douglas Cardew the Cad –McG: Cardew Robinson.HF: Cardew Robinson. We were in a film, down at the Rank Organisation, the Rank School, at Highbury was it?McG: Highbury.HF: It was Highbury and this was a film with Cyril Fletcher and his wife Betty Astell, and it was pretty rubbishy, with […]
[…]things that really struck me about the difference between the informality of ACV and the BBC was that the day that I started, I was told to report to Highbury studios at 10 o'clock. It was empty until about half past 10 When the chap in charge came in.Unknown Speaker 7:55 We were a bit f[…]
[…]illusioned with it. While I'm on this can I say when I was at Pinewood I went to see high definition films on an official visit from Pinewood at Highbury Studios. Norman Collins was in charge of it and high definition films was some way of shooting with thousands of lines of definition on a tel[…]
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[…]ng woman, Leslie was a dreamer, yet he had his feet On the ground, and Leslie came in, we made a picture called The Gentle Sex, we shot part of it at Highbury Studio which was a di sasterAL: Why do you say thatGC: It was the wrong director. P. C. Samuel, Phil,SC : What happened to him.GC: He's dead,[…]
[…]boy, who comes in, ‘Hier Ritter.. (indistinct). And er..(laughing) It’s just in the film! With er, Roy Balting.Interviewer – At Denham?Peter – No, at Highbury. Highbury was a sort-of converted church hall, and they – the Baltings were desperate to save money. They had no money on Paster Hall. They w[…]