[…]d got to know me a bit then, doing other royal stories. And so I was allowed to travel on the royal train. Arrangements were made with all the cinema managers across the country wherever the royal train stopped to pick up my negatives and send the back to England. We had a fantastic operation where […]
[…]we get, can’t get a theatre round here?” “Talk to Uncle Bertie.” Uncle Bertie is Peter’s uncle Bertie Ray. His mum was Peggy Ray. And Uncle Bertie is manager of the Garrick Theatre in Charing Cross Road for Jack Buchanan, who is in Hollywood making [The] Band Wagon with Fred Astaire and has been for[…]
[…]go out to Kay's lab and tell George that I sent you, which found it good enough. I said, I presume you mean George Hawkes, who was then the technical manager of Kays. And I said, Yes, certainly. And I said, But tell me, I have never asked you, Richard, what is your connection with Kays? He said, Wel[…]
[…] accessible free of charge. M y father was the opening manager of the Odeon Harrogate and the Odeon Morecambe. He […]
[…] accessible free of charge. M y father was the opening manager of the Odeon Harrogate and the Odeon Morecambe. He […]
[…] called Chester who was the sales guy at the time and a technical guy, who worked for me, Mel, who was brilliant technical person. And he was a micro-manager, Stanley, he micro-managed every project. He would … down to how he had the cameras looking and … Before he did a feature he’d make sure that […]
[…]nd Oxford and everything else. And they'd obviously twigged that we were up to something. And I could see that they twigged because there was so many managers around this day and everything else. And it wasn't just because of who was in the building, etc. GM: 32.00 So, I said, “Just […]
[…]ey were going to destroyextremely good quality UK held material which they didn’t have in the States,and finally I had to make friends with the vault manager at Rank – who was avery strange man indeed – but I managed to woo him secretively to giving memost of the material for which he could not get […]
E. M. Smedley Aston (production manager) 1912 - 2006by admin — last modified Jul 27, 2008 02:43BECTU History Project - Interview No. 407[Copyright BECTU] Interview Date: 1997-04-30Interviewer: Roy Fowler Interviewee: Fred TomlinRoy Fowler: So starting at the beginning, when and w[…]
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No. I saw Simon Campbell Jones – Simon Cellan Jones’s name on television just the other day in one of these series, he’s working as a floor manager or something, so I knew he’d get into the business, you know.
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