[…]ery anxious for me to get into the firm. And I was anxious to get into motion pictures! My eldest sister had written quite a few original stories for films. At that time the principal film industry was not in Hollywood, but in New Jersey, across the River, the Hudson River, from Manhattan, from New […]
[…], their engineering base was in the early 1900s when they moved over to film, they divorced themselves from general engineering, and they stayed with films so, so they were doing things in the 1950sUnknown Speaker 4:08 that nobody else would dream of doing, like hand cutting threads, you[…]
[…]n, anywhere, she can do the job’. And then she said to me ‘You know that job is well paid, it will pay for your studies and, and to make two or three films a year and then you can pay for your studies and finish your studies’. So I worked on as a continuity girl. That is when Tony Wall came I said, […]
[…] for your studies and, and to make two or three films a year and then you can pay for your […]
[…] laundry by Berliners, and when the Russians came, when the liberation came, she came out onto the street for the […]
[…] people like, the times that I went which was in the 30s were people like Dave willis who was my personal favourite, and Will Fyffe who had gone into films of course by that time, and Harry Gordon, the Laird of Inversnecky, there was Jack Radcliffe, I can't remember all of them. The ones I remember […]
[…]tion. And a man named Lewis Rabkin who I think was a. Producer for feature films. I wasn't aware of this because going there as an office boy. My job […]
[…] Steps (1935). During the 1930s He also worked on anti-Fascist films and pro-Spanish Republican propaganda films. After WWII he joined […]
[…]half a dozen of us we went and joined up with this American unit and from there joined up with General Éclair of the Free French and we went into the Liberation of Paris and filmed that which was a wonderful occasion, I shall never forget it. It was very difficult to go back to the war afterwards.Fr[…]
