[…] big studios. Either Shepperton, Pinewood, Elstree or any of them, MGM. I'd work in the studios but taken in with […]
[…] I was concerned, until 'Ryan's Daughter' which was occasioned by MGM-British Studio shutting and his wanting somewhere to dub and […]
[…] see. When they were busy I would nip in - MGM, and all that you see. But there was 'Cleopatra'... […]
[…] film for you to do in London. Little Hut. For MGM. So I said well you know go back to […]
[…] almost as much as he did when he went to MGM many years later. He trained an awful lot of. […]
[…] him before WWII. After the war he was contracted by MGM -British, for whom he had previously shot Goodbye Mr […]
[…] of lightweight cameras. Later in the 1940s he worked with MGM, and his final long-term job was as Head of […]
[…] Thorold: it was a stunning success, so much so that MGM bought the rights and tried to destroy all copies […]
[…]orily as “their opponents”. Round One was a team one identifying Film Studio trademark tunes or their sound effects. Both teams made easy pickings of MGM’s roaring lion and the 20th Century Fox fanfare but the deciding victory in this round for the Managers was that they identified not only the orig[…]
[…] end of that was announced that the studio was closing, being sold to the BBC. And we were tipped off. So you boys are okay, you will come with us to MGM. And that's great, got no problem. And I was the only person left in the camera department to hand over stuff that was being auctioned, and hand o[…]