[…] said, "Okay, I'm your man." So I went to the library, he gave me all the books to read up […]
[…] think. He was offered a job at Pinewood with the library I think it was, which he didn't want to […]
[…]uld I do?" So he said, "Well you know what the company said - go for it." So I got in touch with them, I said, "Okay, I'm your man." So I went to the library, he gave me all the books to read up on sensitometry and what have you. And I studied up and then went in there. I met with the board, there w[…]
[…]it and I was one of the ones who got the axe. Well, in fact everybody got it except Terry Ashwood, I think. He was offered a job at Pinewood with the library I think it was, which he didn't want to do and eventually gave it up. Which was very stupid of him actually, because he had to retire early th[…]
[…]een it. But the big band of cloud appeared on the horizon. Oh, because we had inquired if anyone had done it. No, they hadn't. There was no chance of library. Anyway, site manager said, Okay, let's call it quits go home. I said, let's wait till the sun has actually gone. And I was right. It went thr[…]
[…]emendous opportunity. And then afterwards, at at Shepherds Bush, when really things were running down, he said to me, would you like to take over the library was a huge library. They're all in utter chaos at the time. And I was given the job of putting this into some order. I really enjoyed this eno[…]
[…] "Operating a Longwall Coal Cutter", which is still in the library. It was late 1957. We shot in a training […]
[…]etter. When I started directing life was easier. My first was a simple training film called "Operating a Longwall Coal Cutter", which is still in the library. It was late 1957. We shot in a training pit: Whitwood in Yorkshire. You had control of everything, because they weren't producing coal. Sarah[…]
[…]icitor’s clerk and running the office and taking thebriefs and doing, well one had to do something, one couldn’t do nothing. And I waschairman of the Library Committee and things like that, because I was asked to be becausethey wanted to... I mean they had a... one small example of the way... The go[…]