[…]was when I left school and when I was about sixteen I got a job with an American filmmaker called Alan Forbes. Alan made documentary films. He was in London and he taught me about editing, and about camera operating, and about sound, and basically was a very committed filmmaker. And, God, I was luck[…]
[…] with because after he finished at Elstree he was with London Films I think for a time. And I got on […]
[…]ther, Claude Arundel. All right. He also joined the company, and they decided to, you know, upstairs from Leeds and bring down their business down to London. And they set up a firm somewhere in just in the in central London Oxford street somewhere. And there are churches today with his name associat[…]
[…]by at home anymore, and my father had just remarried. And I thought I was a bit in the way, so I decided not to go to university but instead to go to London and try and make my way in the big city. INTERVIEWER: All right, so what happened when you got to London? CHARLES SMITH: Well, I work[…]
[…]tratford with Birmingham. But it was very pleasant in those days and I lived there for I suppose it was about 15 years or so and then we moved nearer London to Great Missenden, and it was from Great Missenden that I started in films. I should say that when I left school in 1929 I went into the adver[…]
[…], will give an intro to himself, introduce yourself.Howard Lanning 1:14 My name is Howard Lanning. I was born in 1932, in the East End of London, and I've been in the film industry as a Film and Sound Editor for more than 50 years.Derek Threadgall 1:35 Then we get into the me[…]
[…] isn't it? So I went to Decca records, on the London Embankment, you know, and I met Mr Somes-Charlton[?]. Well […]
[…]joined the BBC as a technical assistant – so, trainee engineer. And, at the time, all I knew was that they were recruiting for posts in television in London, so that would have been, really, Television Centre and Lime Grove, as they were, in White City. So, I was taken on and was posted to TV Centre[…]
[…]ording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Our subject today is John Ammonds - A M M O N D S. Television producer director, ex-BBC TV, Thames TV, London Weekend Television, now retired. The interviewer record this is John P Hamilton, member of the BECTU History Project committee, the date Monday[…]
[…]y isn’t a long time, just as in the war years, the very first part of the war broke out I was in the ambulance service, I had to go and report to the London Ambulance Service, and when I look back on it now I was only there for three months full time, I feel I was in for the whole war, of course I w[…]
