Gerry Fisher

[…]ed target for tonight. General, we said I'd done target. Then Harris was the operator. And the director was a woman was Kay manda. And the production manager was also a woman called Deborah Cheshire. And john didn't get on all that well with with the idea, I think, basically ever a woman director. A[…]

Gerry Anstiss

[…]  That was that was British National.Gerry Anstiss  3:32  It became British National it was Rock studios. And Fred Swan was the studio manager in those days. Jimmy Wilson was the chief cameraman there. And he was the man that gave me my first job. So anyway, I went into the camera dep[…]

L P (Bill) Williams

[…]ey Giesler : Back to Pinewood?L.P. Williams : Yes, I went to Pinewood, just went and walked around, and talked to Don White who'd been our production manager before the war and he was sort of chief production manager to independent producers. Ooh, he said, you want a job? Right, got one right away. […]

Alice (Queenie) Turner

BECTU History ProjectInterview no: 281Interviewee: Alice (Queenie) Turner Interviewers: Alan Lawson and Syd Wilson No of tapes: OneDuration: 01:04:30COPYRIGHT: No use may be made of any interview material without the permission of the BECTU History Project (http://www.historyproject.org.uk/). Copyri[…]

Charles W. Smith

[…]TH: Yes, of course. It was with a small cooperative unit called DATA, DATA Film Unit. And I was taken on, really, in the first place, as a production manager and accountant,  again because I could add up a row of figures, which not everybody can—although I wanted to be a technician. INTERV[…]

Alfred E. (Alfie) Cox

[…]no safety stock or anything has come Guy Fawkes Night terrible terrible fire fights all around us. And on one occasion a victim was sent round to the manager's office. Anybody caught using fireworks in the first instance.[00:20:15.790] - SPEAKER: F11 Dismas Baron from the studio for life. So hi[…]
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