Alvin Bailey

He joined Gainsborough Studios as a 3rd Assistant. Worked at Shepperton Studios with Darryl Zanuck on sound effects. Editor with Anglo Scottish.1951.

Brian Taylor

…red cars and aero engines.He was taken to the cinema for the first time as ababe-in-arms aged six months, because his father was playing the 'cello in the pit orchestra, where he performed in the even…

Martin Smith

Father was a radio-radar technician, mother was an Irish protestant. He was in hospital aged 3 with a TB spine.

Ronnie Udell

Closed shop opened up as studios expanded. Wage rates good.£4/11d [just under 25pence] per hour for a 52-hour week, plus overtime. Sets struck and rebuilt overnight.

Ronnie Whitehouse

Ronnie settled In the camera department, and became a lighting cameraman - and then a director. During his eighteen years at Shell Film Unit, Ronnie was exposed to a wide range of subjects, locations …

Vincent Porter

Major producers benefitted. On publication more activities took place. Coal Board, TV competition, Cyril Arapoff, Shell.

Cyril Page

…Cameraman and has the job of recruiting cameramen. Aidan Crawley was made Editor-in-Chief  After some period he is asked to take over the job vacated by Cyril Moorhead, assigning cameramen and eq…

James Arthur Clark

…tor, Jim Clark, who died on 25th February, aged 84,  is best-known for his -highlight">Oscar-winning work on Roland Joffe’s Cambodian civil war drama, ’The Killing Fields’ (1984).  He worked with an imp…

John Ammonds

…sp;   Interviewer: John P Hamilton    SynopsisAdmin set-up. Barney Coleman.

Harry Pottle

…m that he worked on was Man About the House (Vincent Korda) early post-war days at Worton Hall, and various ,working at Shepperton with C P Norman; and working at Denham. When that closed do…