[…] pass you on to L'Estrange Fawcett who was the production manager. And L'Estrange Fawcett said you've come at the right […]
[…] He wanted to train as directors. So it was sort of a director's training course. And we had sort of right head of cameras from one company and stage manager from another. And they all came to this course, in either Bristol Cardiff it was I can't remember exactly. And they had very well equipped stu[…]
Ron Seeth - Transcript [Start of Recording] [00:00] I: This is an interview with Ron Seeth for the Scottish Broadcasting Heritage Group's Oral History project. The interviewer is Janet McBain and the date is 13 May 2017. Ron, let's start with when and where you were brought up. When w[…]
[…]Barker, right. So, yeah, this photograph was lent to us by Robert Barker, and it shows the staff as it was in 19 early 1912 and this consisted of the manager, the manager's wife, the cashier, the engineer, who had the very important job of supervising the crossly engine in the basement, which suppli[…]
[…] accent.SF: No, of course, not.So he’d gone and taken elocution lessons.SF: Yes.And risen through the ranks-ish in the BBC.SF: Yes.Started as a floor manager.SF: Yes.And worked in the BBC. So when I met him he’d just made a little film, I think I was about... How old was I? Twenty-two, he was twenty[…]
[…] wandered over to the cameraman just to say hi to him about some video some reprint or something like that. And I was actually called into the studio manager's office the next day and asked Why did I go and told the cameramen because that's what I was talking about what we would just seen. And it wa[…]
[…]mpany and building a tour. They couldn’t play London, the theatres were closed. By that time Miss Bayliss had died and Tyrone Guthrie was our general manager. So the person on the phone was Guthrie, telling us what was happening. We embarked on a tour in the blackout and we never knew when we were g[…]
[…]or unusual or different, but because of that people saw in the studio that I had done a lot of that sort of work and Donald Wilson was the production manager on it. He might have been first assistant, he might not have moved up to production manager in those days, but it was he who then got me the j[…]
[…]Margate and going to the Royal School for Deaf and Dumb children and seeing Dreamland. And I shot this and John came down, I wrote a letter of to the manager of Dreamland and said, a hypocritical letter which said we would love to do a film about Dreamland which might be of use to you for publicity […]
[…] you too much, so you carry on.Charles Wilder: Yes East Acton was near Shepherd's Bush and the bosses then were A.C. and R.C. Bromhead and the studio manager was Bernard Bromhead, and it was all in the family kind of thing, you know? And the film that was in production when I arrived there was Jack […]