[…] (AKS), Pinewood. 1940s -60s - Feature sound recordist, particularly at MGM British (Elstree). Also with David Lean, Kubr ick and […]
[…] Service (AKS), Pinewood. 1940s-60s - Feature sound recordist, particularly at MGM British (Elstree). Also with David Lean, Kubrick and Hammer. […]
[…]t, it's what I know and what I'm capable of doing." But one of those was Bob Richardson, - well he ended up, funny enough, as chief projectionists at MGM studios, so I reminded him of it. He said, "Yes," he said, "I got fired because of you!" So that was another story. Anyway as I say, we all went o[…]
[…]ing the gun a little bit. When my when Nikki rogue introduced Paul Mills, or my mother Smalley to Paul Mills, who was head of department publicity at MGM British. Oui, oui. The house we lived in having moved out of Wellington house was about to get married Tony. We're going to live in a place called[…]
[…] City (Shepperton), Denham, Pinewood, Army Film Unit, Crown Film Unit, MGM -Borehamewood, Shepperton and Rank Film Labs . Born in […]
[…]McGoohan, and this was a great huge success. TD: Which studio was that? AY: That was at… it started at National and went on the MGM. So it was at MGM studios that I was producing the one hours. You see we started with half hours and then we went on to one hours. And then […]
[…]as a Commando, out with No.4 Royal Marine Commando on D-Day with a detachment and one of the sergeants was Ernie Walter who later became an editor at MGM and we landed at D- Day on the beach at St Urban sur Mer [32.46] and I went through all the Normandy campaign until just at the time of the breako[…]
[…]production I had automatic reinstatement rights if I chose to accept them. I did make some tentative enquiries. Around this time a lucrative offer at MGM through my old boss A. W. Watkins reared its head. MGM were opening a new studio complex at Borehamwood which used to be Amalgamated Studios befor[…]
[…] brief Memoir from a member of the sound department at MGM Borehamwood which sheds a little light on the earlier […]