[…]ning of the war, I suppose one of the highest paid assistant in the country are getting 17 pounds a week, which should always be at 18. I think, with MGM, which I think is probably about as hard as they kind of say went in there. Anyway, you could live very well on it Linda Wood 16:55was […]
[…]ways reckon the budget I did with the art director was the true budget, what it was going to cost below the line. And I remember we did Blow-Up, MGM said oh no, far too much. The accountant, the accountant I should have said just now, he and I got down and reduced it down to what MGM said. We b[…]
[…]p;to the studios distribution side. You had because you had entered a very busy MGM had a lab attached to MGM labs you say in the in the early very ea[…]
[…]ith Ted, and he could handle any kind of subject and knew what he was talking about. And it was a very sad day when he left Gainsborough. And went to MGM. I think he regretted it afterwards because at MGM he did nothing. They gave him nothing to do.RF: It was their way, they did the same thing with […]
[…]ng about it? It'll only sound like sour grapes. I'm learning, I'm doing what I want to." Well that was all over and then Victor was making films with MGM and I went on holiday where my first daughter - first child was conceived I'm bound tell you! [Chuckles] And this was in 1938 and um, er, I worked[…]
[…]t of filmmakers, definitely outstanding. See this were, when you look back at the Ufa era, there was enormous talent there. I don't think even in the MGM highest days, it had quite that sort of talent, because they had, if the sound hadn't come into it would have been still going strong, definitely,[…]
[…] was all over and then Victor was making films with MGM and I went on holiday where my first daughter […]
[…] Assistant Director at a variety of studios, including Gaumont British, MGM British, and for more cut-price producers such as George […]
[…]sts microphone and breaks into frame.23.14 – 23.27] PM: I’m probably running out of context. DB: Yes. In the cv it says one or two jobs for MGM, about this time. Up at Elstree.PM: Yeah.DB: Or Borehamwood as we know it.PM: Yeah, again because of the making props and stuff like that I got a […]
[…]ound out that it was terrible and he wouldn't co-operate at all, it was very strange, and why a lot of it went back to, I think it was transferred at MGM, at Boreham Wood. Why they hadn't said anything, but I think they were very cross about- LH: The film going to the States. WR: Not only […]
