[…]rking in cinemas, by this time I was a second at the News Theatre in Birmingham and I thought I’d got a pretty good job and I wasn’t going to risk er moving and not getting another one. My brother David was a projectionist at British Movietone and he said “I don’t think that you should be working in[…]
[…]teen, yes.Alan Lawson: God. What did your father say when you moved?David Robson: He said - I told him and he said, "Well, that's a good sign, you're moving on. You're still in the business." He wasn't too happy about that [laughs]. But after all, I was a chip off the old block I suppose. I suppose […]
[…]room, nor did any of the others prior that Hugo did, but not very much. But he he got me cutting things that we wouldn't do in those days, like, on a moving camera and that sort of thing, which became, when nobody ever thinks about it, they don't even notice it now, but in those days, it was you kno[…]
[…]d then actually on September the third 1939 which was the morning that the war was declared my sister and I bicycle over to our new home we were just moving to which was a haze in and I got a scholarship to go to Bishop Ellington which is only a very good school. I got a free free scholarship to go […]
[…]two films he made or I think disasterous film as their ideas that very little accomplishment. And it always seemed to me that the problem for him was moving out of his North libretto studio and suddenly having to work within a strictly commercial, yes, context, the clock ticking every year and only […]
[…]e thatRoy Fowler 35:46 will cease then to worry. Well, have we come to the end of your period in sponsored films? Do you think are we now moving into your features? Yes,Speaker 1 36:00 we have, I mean, what is down?Roy Fowler 36:10 Unless there was something speci[…]
[…]d they pay much attention to performance, to characterization...Or, or was it a very mechanical shoot...or was it just a matter of directing traffic, moving actors around... CB: Oh no, no, no, no there was a lot of time taken to, to explain, explain your character and what you were going to do in th[…]
[…]rget why - well I suppose to see Valentino. There he was working in a silent picture and er, I got an eyeful of him and then we went!Roy Fowler: Well moving on then from that, what then? What do you remember then?Eddie Dryhurst: Well I'd always wanted to work for Carl Laemmle, the president of Unive[…]
[…] became a firm called Stevenson Clarke. I really don’t know a great deal about that side of things, but I think he was some kind of chartering clerk, moving ships and cargoes from south to north and north to south.His father who had died very young, just shortly after he was born, had been a great l[…]
[…]ng my feet there I usually found myself at the Odeon and would ultimately find myself, due to staff leaving the business to pursue other interests or moving to other units in the Company, as senior at The Gaumont. My first impressions of the operation was that the GM’s style of management was extrem[…]
