[…]bsp;administrative capacity of when when he left to join Paramount he became general manager so I think as I remember it uh in my school days because we had&nbs[…]
[…]bsp;were you paid?Unknown Speaker 7:08 30 shillings a week? That was a fortune.Unknown Speaker 7:12 I was told see the studio manager thereUnknown Speaker 7:18 was named Harold box all he told me that I'd be paid 30 shilling a week for three months, and that after[…]
[…]interviewed by Sid Cole in 1987.1. On his father H.B. ParkinsonRP: I was born in Surbiton, 22nd January 1916, and my father at that time was a cinema manager. I remember when I was about 2 we lived in a flat, I should think, or a hotel in Brighton, when he was manager of the cinema in Westfleet. The[…]
[…]e editing department. So I ran the number to find out what it was all about. And a former editor named ALF Chapman who was one of the film operations managers had quite a long helpful chat with me over the phone. And who said, Well, I better tell you, even though you may have quite a lot of experien[…]
[…]eds to be controlled. So, when you bring artists in, you sit an artist down and the control of the situation has to be complete so you've got a floor manager, a unit manager or someone who makes sure that the reality is controlled. There's no noises, no interruptions, it all happens for you. The fil[…]
[…]e editing department. So I ran the number to find out what it was all about. And a former editor named ALF Chapman who was one of the film operations managers had quite a long helpful chat with me over the phone. And who said, Well, I better tell you, even though you may have quite a lot of experien[…]
[…]a quite a tough time. I did I did one thing for the arts department. BBC because I'd always worked at the BBC. I fill people called film organisation managers. And they were amazing. They, the whole of BBC, I think there were six people who organised all that. Filming, sound recording, dubbing mixin[…]
[…]pe of acrobats in the circus. And he came from a circus family, how he got into the film industry I do not know but my God he was an efficient studio manager he ran a very tight ship. And everything father did from Border Television upwards and downwards Hal was included in. I had to buy […]
[…]was blaming Dick and Dick was blaming Harry well, you can appreciate how it was. And life was not so easy for anyone working in labs right from their manager down to the the hypo boy, things changed tremendously as both Alf and Sam know sensometric control came in. But I think they ought to describe[…]
[…]So in 46, you were a producer/commentator? P: Well I joined television as an OB, the advertisement was what they called Assistant OB Manager. Now what that really meant was that you were jack of all trades. We were producer, presenter, commentator, stage manager – I’ve a[…]