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[…] E.M. Smedley-Aston: No, no, that's quite true. Well I...the first studio I ever went into was Beaconsfield where there was […]

[…]h. It wasn't easy, especially in the Depression years to get a job in pictures.E.M. Smedley-Aston: No, no, that's quite true. Well I...the first studio I ever went into was Beaconsfield where there was a female Art Director, I think her name was Mary Brabham or something like that. Anyhow, she […]

[…]k, who, as far as I know of her background, she worked at Anson and Daya in Hammersmith, and improbably worked at Tim Harrison, Bachelor and possibly Larkins before she came to permanently in studios. And so I worked with her at the studios at the time, and I went there. The directors were George Ma[…]

[…]h Petroleum, Shell and then we moved in a big way into public relations films and this is practically where you came in because we were together with Larkins Studio to do films for the European Economic Commission. We then made The Shoemaker And The Hatter paid for by the American government to teac[…]

[…]nger At night over in Covent Garden just made a bit of extra cash. Was that where your mother was at that time? At the time my mother was working for Larkins, which is about four streets over from here in Henrietta Street, above what used to be a Barclays Bank, and Larkins did industrial training fi[…]

[…]he building industry. And I had a friend that had been at the technical school with me. He was now a charge hand for mentors that was building Denham studios. FG, Minter and I came down to join him. And of course, when I go into film, doesn't it? There was no more thought of South Africa because we […]

[…] on marine radar ever used in a public film, the word military films of course, but this was crossing the channel in the maid of Orleans with Captain Larkins. We had a week to shoot this sequence, which in the end was vice president about six, seven minutes long. And the first four days of the week,[…]

[…]sp;the first jobs I had. Was to go down to take a package to the film studios in Lime Grove Shepherd's Bush and the whole place reeked of fish when I&[…]