[…]e, was it like many studios at that time a converted house with stages built round it?John Aldred: At that particular moment they had just built four new stages and they were on permanent hire. One pair was on hire to John Wainwright and another pair was on hire to John Baxter. They rented the thing[…]
[…]lot of the pictures.EB: Well it was a special treat for me on a Sunday night, to go and see, but Father was offered a job in a very tough district in New North Road, where they objected so much to the pianist that they threw a bottle on his head, and he was in hospital.SC: Why did they do that?EB: W[…]
[…]a movie and you spent the next year I know cancelling it and cutting it and everything but you know that the I was always sort of I was always trying new clothes in the house 16 I was the youngest person there. But I didn't want to make a film like all the other people I will commentary I want to ma[…]
[…] art director and Carmen came in - it was her first job in the industry - as Ralph's assistant. And of course, she was wonderful, because I mean she knew it all, she was a trained architect, and first of all she got ticked off Ernie Gartside for wearing trousers on the set, and she said, "Well how a[…]
[…]y fluorescence where I was measuring coating weights, the amount of silver in various films, because obviously all the time they’re trying to develop new films. So they would produce samples at a testing coating track and I’d measure those samples to measure the silver. And I also used a bit of equi[…]
[…] did a lot of buying houses in ham, and I went up to London that did several places, and he plays with machine.Unknown Speaker  5:27  So I knew basics. Yes, I see, yes, sorry. Anyway, you know that's right, so you went on to the floor. That was the first time we were on the floor on those […]
[…]ears there. And then we moved to Godalming in Surrey, where he was in general practice. I know that. What about schooling, schooling, I went to Peer? new school as a child. And then my main school from the age of about 13 onwards was the High School for Girls a Guilford and that's why I took my scho[…]
[…]programme engineer up in in Bangor. And he lived not far from me at Penmaenmawr, and it started at Penmaenmawr the bus and it had a timetable so you knew and it was timed with certain shows. We got there for the call for ITMA and the band of course, the review orchestra were in Llanfairfechan. […]
[…]ot to the cinema every week; very little of his early life had anything to do with his career in the film industry, when he left the army in 1947 he knew he didn’t want to work in an office; Southern Rail had a small film unit for training under Waterloo which worked outside the union until the rail[…]
[…]c side were America and Great Britain. And even in those days, the company very much divided its research work, because there might be a project or a new film, which in fact, the work would be shared between the two groups. So there was very rarely something which just happened in the States or just[…]
