[…]Giesler: And you'd set up your own independent company. Was it all on your own, or did you have people to help you?Larry Allen: No, I had a fellow, a manager. He was very good, he was my manager. We travelled the country together.Rodney Giesler: What, promoting work?Larry Allen: Yeah, and he was bri[…]
[…] of the others were. I thought I’d like to do that so again I just did the round of the studios and I found myself at Highbury Studios and the studio manager whose name I can’t just remember at this moment, thought it was very funny that I should ask. You have to understand that there were no […]
[…]ssume so on.Richard Marden 0:37 Yes, well, my parents basically came from the West Country, my father worked the GEC and he was a factory manager in a glassworks, basically at Wembley where there was a big glassworks. There was another one up in Newcastle and some other ones and Hammersm[…]
[…]Playhouse. We're now talking - I can't work out the dates, anyway I was fifteen. And they hadn't got any vacancies, I wanted to be an assistant stage manager. Earlier in my life, before the war, the school had gone to the Science Museum and I'd seen Night Mail in the cinema and never forgotten it. A[…]
[…]SECONDS OF SPEECHSid Cole 1:43 this copyright interview for the back to history project of Ernie diamond, carpenter and then construction manager. We've been conducted by Sidney Cole and Colin Sorenson. On Tuesday, February the eighth 1994. Ernie, when we were born, andErnie Diamond &nbs[…]
[…] been in the Navy of course. He'd left the Navy as a Lieutenant and came into films. He was a charming chap, very competent.Alan Lawson : Was he Unit Manager on "The 39 Steps"?PB: "39 Steps" - yes I believe he was, yes.Alan Lawson : A mercurial character.Peter Birch : He could be, yes, quite humorou[…]
SPEAKER: F1The copyright of this recording is vested in the AC Titi history project. John Allen. Laboratory technician Technicolor and also a manager. INTERVIEWER Alice Cooper with Alan Lawson recorded on the second of May nineteen ninety one side one first of all when and where were you born.SPEAKE[…]
[…]was delighted when I was told I could start the following Monday. I was offered the fantastic wage of £1 a week/ and here's the punchline, the studio manager said if you're any good we'll start paying you the second week. I don't think you'd have that today. But I was so keen I was willing to work f[…]
[…] sixty-nine I think, so I had made my name with Gainsborough for being under budget! [Chuckles] Roy Fowler: Right. Were you acting as production manager? Andy Worker: No just... Roy Fowler: Just the accountant? Andy Worker: Just as accountant, hmm. Roy Fowler: Well, the stud[…]
