[…]u know, quite good fun doing it. [NB Watt actually only directed the background photography] But Ray and I weren't very popular with the director and producer who was a chap called Ernest B Schoedsack. He was about seven feet tall, I never understood what the hell he was talking about, because he'd […]
[…]ed on the 26th April 1988 in the executive room of ACTT at 111, Wardour Street. The subject is Edward Dryhurst, interviewed by Roy Fowler. Eddie is a producer, writer, director, going back a long, long way. Edward, the fact is that you have written recently about your life in great detail and so I t[…]
[…] Ray and I weren't very popular with the director and producer who was a chap called Ernest B Schoedsack. He […]
[…]Monday, you went into the Kensington house down off shepherds, Bush, you'd go down there you have a meeting with the editor and the trainee assistant producers coming in who were doing individual stories. And you'd work through and you say, Well, I want and they they were new to the business. So the[…]
[…] he used to run a stall years ago at the back of the Palladium as well as run the Palladium property department for Albert de Courville who was a big producer in his day. He used to make all these props out …ALAN LAWSON: Papier mâché, wasn’t it?HARRY MILLER: Papier mâché stuff and, you know.&n[…]
[…]ou had been employed by the studio, and now you are on the payroll direct, is that it, or are you still on Denham studio’s payroll?WR: On Independent Producer’s payroll.RF: Independent Producers, hm.WR: But to go back [pause] on The Way Ahead, they had four or five actors that were always on call, a[…]
[…] by Albert De Courville, who was a well known theatrical producer - knew nothing about movies of course! And they […]
Interview with Margaret Dale (choreographer, ballet dancer, television producer)The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History project.Interviewer Norman SwallowRecorded on the 21st January 1992. DISC 1 Side One Track 1NS: First of all Maggie, when and where were you born?[…]
[…]t is the work of a production accountant?Charles Wilder: Well a production accountant first of all has to work on the budget, in conjunction with the producer and um...John Taylor: Which is the first one you did as a production accountant?Charles Wilder: I think it was called 'The Gray Scarf' [NB Pr[…]
