[…]working in huge shows. There was automation coming in. There was no extra money. So I dreamt up this thing that still goes on to this day, called pre-production meeting. So I said, “Well, what we should have is, is a pre-production meeting. And every pre-production meeting, we get extra money for we[…]
[…]lo, Johnny, I’m setting up a company called Trident Films', he said, 'and I just wondered if you’d be interested in being Executive in Charge of Production'.
I practically had an erection, it was so totally unbelievable. 'It sounds very interesting,' I said, trying n[…]
[…], Worton Hall combined with Shepperton. So I was a secretary, and then, just let me think of the order of things. I wanted, by that time, to get into production. It seemed to be great to get into production. Publicity was... and I was, I had a girlfriend, completely independently of the industry, wh[…]
[…]your entry. It’s... You said Tom White. He was an independent producer at Pinewood wasn’t he?
No, he... Yes, he was I suppose, yes. He was head of production wasn’t he?
Um... Well, production management I would say.
Yes. Yes, yes.
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[…]ody rushed about and switched it round from front to back and re-lit it and off it went on the air you see.During the actual transmission you, as the production secretary or whatever...?Mm.You were sitting in the gallery?I was in the gallery, yes.All the time?And...And in front of you was the script[…]
[…]ures in England in that period, features and all kinds of things. Oh yes, he was a busy man.Roy Fowler: There was a fairly healthy English or British production organisation at that time, was there not?Eddie Dryhurst: Well it was struggling to be born in a sense I think. There were a lot of fly-by-n[…]
[…] air you see. During the actual transmission you, as the production secretary or whatever…? Mm. You were sitting in the […]
Adrian (Andy) Worker ( Production Supervisor/Studio Manager) 1916 - ? by admin — last modified Jul 27, 2008 02:52 PM […]
[…]So, I was taken on and was posted to TV Centre and found myself in, what was then called, television recording department which nowadays we call post-production. That encompassed videotape operations and telecine and film work and transmission and that sort of thing. So that’s the department I found[…]
[…].Roy Fowler 3:56 CM, CMJonathan Balcon 9:43 CM Wolf sorry, CM Wolf yes, I do get names wrong. He formed with Victor Saville a production company making advertising films. This was in 1919 and it was not unnaturally called The Victory Motion Picture Company. And Victor Saville[…]
