[…]Lawson: Yeah.Cyril Pennington-Richards: ...[???], absolutely. Well anyway I went - so we started this 'Fires Were Started' and we worked at Pinewood. I think we - I can't remember which way round we did it, whether we did the interiors first or the exteriors first. I've got a feeling we pr[…]
[…]d but you had better stand by and see what happens. So eventually they said, Oh yes well you must be seconded to the Army Film Unit and I was sent to Pinewood where DP Field was in charge of the sound department of the Army Film Unit. So we met up again. He also had been in the Artillery meanwhile a[…]
[…]on our boat. On that night they announced we would be going onshore for embarkation leave, so back we go on 3 weeks embarkation leave and I report to Pinewood and explain, they say you must do as you're told, so I went to the war office and explained to them and said look it!s ridiculous, it can't b[…]
[…]s printed with, as it were, an Academy gate, leaving room for the soundtrack. 3. Independent FrameBL: Independent Frame was a process devised at Pinewood. At the end of the war Mr. Rank, J. Arthur Rank, thought that British films needed mechanising - almost mechanising - more scientific. He got[…]
[…]nd they wanted extra scenic artists to work the weekend to paint stuff. So, two scenic artists from Lime Grove- 5 minutes PM: -were sent to Pinewood. And they said “You go with them.” So I remember getting the train to Uxbridge and someone waiting for me and took me to Pinewood on a Saturd[…]
[…]ng to it one night and one of the questions to the contestant was what was the busiest studio that made the most films last year. And they said Pinewood or Shepperton and in fact it was Walton Studios – never mind the quality feel the width. That is probably putting it down a bit but we […]
[…]d offices - there was South Street, there was Imperial House, Regent Street. And I went there, and I was only there a few weeks when a job came up at Pinewood, in the Publicity Department, for a publicity director of Wessex Films, which was Ian Dalrymple's company, and she was a lady publicity direc[…]
[…]s taking too long to light up a shot I say you can't win an Academy Award with just one good shot Gordon. Anyway this is how we went on till suddenly Pinewood opened.Alan Lawson: You were a clapper boy? Or you'd moved on?Freddie Francis: No, I had moved on to focus puller by now. Yes I moved on duri[…]
[…]am.Sidney Cole: Ah-huh.Carmen Dillon: And then I worked in Denham for about fifteen or sixteen years, and then that folded up and we all went over to Pinewood. And then I stayed there the rest of the time. Except going once or twice - once to Wembley I think, [corrects herself] to Ealing I think, an[…]
