Winston (Wyn) Ryder

[…] get cobwebs, of all the daftest things. I didn’t see him come back, but apparently, he had cobwebs all over him. That was – and then at Ealing, erm, Pinewood, Denham I just couldn’t understand what had happened: the first film I worked on was The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, and the first shot […]

Richard (Dickie) Best

[…]and dub them at Shepperton and we dubbed them at Teddington whichis now Thames Studios. He also shot 3 of them at Shepperton and finallymoved over to Pinewood when Pinewood opened. We moved to Pinewood on thevery first day which is how I got there on the very first day in fact.AG: From the way you'r[…]

Graham Hartstone

[…]hat group were a couple of people in the sound department. One was Ken Rawkins, who was the boom operator in theatre five, the ADR effects theatre at Pinewood. And another was Arthur Smith. Both of them lived in my road and Arthur Smith was, not sure exactly what he was, but he was in Sound Departme[…]

L P (Bill) Williams

[…]e Saturday night.Rodney Giesler : Which year was that - do you remember?L.P. Williams : Ooh god, when was it? About 35, 35 or 6. And we then moved to Pinewood which was, that was just completed being built.Rodney Giesler : While you were at BIP, did you come across Hitchcock at all?L.P. Williams : W[…]

Dudley Lovell

[…]k it was 3530 for 3535, late 35. Because then we went down to five one as a complete, skewed camera, two cameras. And we did several pictures down at Pinewood I also got hired out to denim to do a little work on a picture Gordon Jaeger at Oxford with Robert Taylor, and down at Pinewood we did three […]

John Shirley

[…] the very first of the independent frame pictures. And it was only really a tryout for independent praying because they were going into production at Pinewood with a very big programme for those days. And that was wonderful. So independent prime is was really just back projection. A little bit more […]

John Aldred

[…]rangely enough instead of being made a cook or a dentist or any other trade I stayed with films and ended up in the Army Film Unit which was based at Pinewood which was only five miles away from Denham. The Army Film Unit was attached to the Ministry of Information. It wasn't making training films, […]

David Prosser

[…] certain street in Paris and all was well, you see...[chuckles].Alan Lawson: [Chuckles] Yes, I can remember that, that message, when...I'd been up at Pinewood and there was absolute consternation about that, even leaking out [chuckles].David Prosser: Yes...er, we got it straight back to the group I […]

Ronald Neame

[…] times, there came a time when he became an executive. For the rank organization. I even think he was for a time he ain't think he's still there Pinewood after there was a long gap that were I don't remember seeing him. And then I I saw him again Pinewood. And I seem to remember him saying, Ron[…]

Edward (Teddy) Carrick (Craig)

[…]e they finished the film because it was one of those ones with awkward backing. I was very lucky to get home and I got all the sets ready for them at Pinewood, and they came in and did it, but I never saw the rushes because I was doing something else and then another film came up. And then, if you p[…]
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