[…]. But generally, I was undisciplined. Don’t forget, I’m my own master, I had nobody to answer to. When you went on sets, directors didn’t behave like managers in factories; or foremen in factories. You are all on the same social level virtually. There were one or two who were a bit awkward but gener[…]
[…]stop button and the film stopped on the developing side and I suddenly realised what had happened. There was a great panic. And erm. I know the manager and I forget his name now and I think his name was Tim White. And he came with the shop steward into the room. And he said ‘you know what dama[…]
[…]t a cheap thing, directed by somebody called John Harlow. Er, we (laughs) we said ‘Harlow by name, Harlow by nature!’. He was a nothing; a production manager – they just got him in quickly. And then, erm…I heard again that there was a film called ‘Kipps’ being made at Shepherd’s Bush, and er, they w[…]
[…]d one My camera man, this question, was it worth doing near the end of our professional lives? Was it worth doing? And he said, Well, my father was a manager of Woolworths in Camberwell High Street. And if I hadn't become a cameraman, I suppose I might have been manager of Woolworths and Cameron Cam[…]
[…]eye when it was it must have been in the 60s or something. You mentioned earlier, Jeff Busby had always been a friend of mine. He'd been a production manager and director goodness, there'sGlyn Jones 30:15 been bluff vintage Big Daddy, Jeff J, like us.John Wiles 30:19 Yes. And[…]
[…]eatrical company co-founded in 1936 by theatre producer, impresario and songwriter Henry Moncrieff Tennent (1879-1941) and his former mentee, theatre manager and producer Hugh “Binkie” Beaumont (1908-1973). Although Tennent died of a heart attack in 1941, Beaumont continued to head the company until[…]
Jill Balcon Side 1 Roy Fowler 0:00 The date is August 2 1997. And we're in Streep, Jill Balcon 0:06 no, sorry, Steep, Steep, Roy Fowler 0:08 Steep, near Petersfield. I'm with ne Jill Balcon and Jill we'll pull our[…]
[…]a as being a six sided triangle to the attention of the Boulting brothers. And the man really was it was was it was the \Boultings shorts manager called Baysit? Seligman was when he came in character with the Oh, the in those days, the cinema actually cared about shorts. I mean, al[…]
[…]the film... I wasn't called up because of my TB, I didn't pass the medical. So I started work at Welwyn Film Studios - er Warwick Ward was the pseudo-manager, chief of the camera was Ronnie Anscombe, who is quite well known. And he took me under his wing and he taught me everything about cameras. An[…]
