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[…]nbsp;            Desperate to work in big studio, invited by Elliot Scott to help out on major MGM film with Ken Adams, “In the cool of the day”. Learned drawing skills from draughtsman Frank Wilson.12:06 -       &n[…]

[…]I'm fascinated with King Kong.SPEAKER: M3And she said oh my father worked on that and I worked with Willis O'Brien. And she said call him up. He's at MGM preparing a film called the war he goes. So it took me two or three days before I got the courage to call him up at MGM and he kindly invited me d[…]

[…]a very happy place.  There was a good atmosphere to it, because it was small, it wasn’t the size of your Pinewoods and your Sheppertons and your MGMs and your ABPCs and when one thinks of the amount of studios that were about in those days.  So there were these four small stages, and every[…]

[…]you will be kept on when we find new places to go, and some of you won't." Well I was the one that wasn't because they went then, if you remember, to MGM?Linda Wood : Yes.Anthony Mendleson : And MGM had a very admirable costume designer called Elizabeth Haffenden who'd been there for years, so natur[…]

[…]ge, or I could take it in this country. Well, I stayed with the Army for about six months after the war and then I was offered rather a good job with MGM. They were starting up their newsreel called Metro News and they offered me quite a good position as Chief Cameraman. I felt that, as much as I wo[…]

[…]p;     Oh Denholm then Pinewood.Q          Denholm then Pinewood, what about British MGM studios at Boreham Wood?A          Oh, now that came on ...Q       […]

[…]d see that man, whatever his name was. AndSpeaker 1  7:08  we also went out to what people call the Anglo amalgamated Studios, which became MGM. MGM, yes, Alfred. Alfred, L Street, yes, yeah. After that. I mean, we both free dance. We took stills together and so on. Then the war broke out.[…]

[…]eggie Beck: I've never worked at Ealing, never. It was Elstree, one of the studios.Wyn Ryder: Then Terence Young.Reggie Beck: That was MGM.Wyn Ryder: Serious Charge. Was that for MGM.Reggie Beck: I don't know who it was for. He was a man who didn't liked to stop the camera a[…]

[…] but to digress for a moment...doing a film up at MGM, when we had a lot of quite big sets […]