[…] shed or an old shop - I saw these things moving on a screen, you know, and I was really […]
[…]er. You couldn't do it so you could, you had to strain everything, all through the system. And so the result wasn't really good. I saw, I saw talking pictures in 99 Yes, ever saw an ordinary photograph? No acoustic phonograph you see, tied him with a picture machine. She was a bush. The it was an Ed[…]
[…]arly what the first competition was that I entered for. And got a little prize. It was a film called the swordsman with Larry Parks before his Jolson pictures and Larry Parks made a film called A swordsman which played at our local cinema. And there was a painting competition which I did and I think[…]
[…]Victoria news theater on the station I was there for a short while. All. And as I say, there again, I went back to News theatres , because obviously, moving from place to place, I got a little bit extra money in those days. You couldn't jump around different jobs here and there, because Jobs were ha[…]
[…]Hitchcock there at that time?WR: No, I never worked with Hitchcock. Graham Cutts, was he there once, Monty Banks.LH: Formby, did they make the Formby pictures there.WR: Yes – I’ve got a feeling that was after – you see then, very shortly I, my parents then were living in Ealing, they moved to Ealing[…]
[…]s the four major studios: Ealing, Shepherd’s Bush, Pinewood and Denham, there was Highbury, where John Croydon made those excellent little supporting pictures, and it was a training ground for the younger artists and younger technicians. And some very good things came out of there.Yes, I’d forgotten[…]
[…] along, they just managed to go… Hand to mouth? …from picture to picture. Hand to mouth. But I would never […]
[…] I think by about 1960, it was it wasn't a sort of a top department that really concerned me very much that I had done. Even before I even thought of moving on. I thought to myself the, well, I've sort of got a finger in all these pies. Is there anything that I prefer above the others? Well, I found[…]
[…] I think by about 1960, it was it wasn't a sort of a top department that really concerned me very much that I had done. Even before I even thought of moving on. I thought to myself the, well, I've sort of got a finger in all these pies. Is there anything that I prefer above the others? Well, I found[…]
[…]n you when the Gus Walker 4:22 studio, no, I got a job through this friend of mine. He wasn't interested in going into the picture business, but he did a good job with mentors, and he told us that they wanted people, and we go in on nights, and at that time, there was some[…]