[…]augh about that, they didn’t. Mm, anyway we got over all that, and we had too really, and it was set up beautifully. Had a marvellous, mm, production manager Richard Cox, mm, who went ahead and did the recces and Tim Harvey designed. Well, they had wonderful recces, they went all round the world sev[…]
[…]x, Alec McKenzie, whose father [W.A. McKenzie] was the Daily Telegraph motoring correspondent at the time, who, that's right. And his son was a floor manager at Rediffusion. And, by this time - all the commercial companies that overstaffed to begin with, and they were now shedding staff. So it[…]
[…]asters was there.Oh yes I remember Erica.And she worked for him from time to time as a production so we must have made films actually as a production manager. And the person who used to come up and down very frequently but not to work there was Walter Lasley [ph 12:50] who used to borrow, because Ma[…]
[…] then which became Walton Studios.AL Who engaged you?GH JK Morris who in fact died last year. He lived in Weybridge. There was the Studio Manager called Bill Norris who was in charge of accounts, JK Morris about a year or eighteen months later Bill Norris left and JK Morris then ran the […]
[…]amily had it was rose shirt factory. I was told But anyway, the next one was Harry, who was a chippy originally but he was ended up as a construction manager. And the youngest was Vic. incident is I haven't said that. That name. It was tapper. And that was I suppose it was through Vic, really, that […]
[…] I'm sorry, I just go back. My father had a patient called Louis Leavy he was conductor of the orchestra. Oh, yes. Yes. And Louis Leavy talked to the manager of the theatre. One, Reggie Forsyth and Reggie Forsyth he was a terrible man, really, terribly Jewish man by God Himself. And through that I g[…]
[…]an Lawson: No, no, no. P. C.Leonard Harris: And he became a producer later on, yes...Alan Lawson: Yes that's right.Leonard Harris: Well he was studio manager then and of course that was a pretty big job. He was sat there in a big office with a big desk you know, [chuckles] and he said, "Well we don'[…]
[…]th them until I retired.Roy Fowler : Right. Can you tell us about what you did?Ella Mallett : Well, mostly clerical and inspecting. I was between the managers, reporting to the office, checking and all that kind of thing. Fascinating, but not like the music.Roy Fowler : No, well tell us about the mu[…]
