Sidney Cole

[…]r I got a letter saying please call at Stoll Studios, Cricklewood at 9.00 on Monday Torning. I went to Sinclair Hill's office who was the director of productions and sat down – he offered me a cup of coffee and a cigarette – and I was in. I saw Ossie Mitchell and he said you can start right away – £[…]

Cyril Pennington

[…] 1932, working on short advertising films before moving into documentary production. By the end of the decade he had become […]

sidney-cole-transcript-1987

[…] this interesting character, Walter Mycroft, who was in charge of production at the studios. He was a small man who […]

Philip Bonham-Carter

[…]hristmas broadcast, but in 1970 it was decided that instead of doing what had in the past been done which was largely to do the broadcast as a studio production, as an outside broadcast, it was decided that because of the success of Royal Family, the way it had been shot, which was essentially ‘fly […]

Peter Montagnon

[…]for mile and a half together with the Americans from the American sector because it was the nearest to the thing that was my first actual my first CO production with the Americans. And we, it was a huge operation, I was only really in charge of the, of the, of the analysis of of what the traffic was[…]

Gerry Humphreys

[…]painters…AL It was permanent crew?GH Oh yes permanent crews.  There was no four walling in those days. [21.33]  And if there was a break in production you were still kept on.  Redundancies were just unheard of.AL Well only for indiscipline.GH Well yes.  Indiscipline or if you had[…]

John Krish

[…]nt there and I was told they'd moved to Denham. And I got the name of the woman who was responsible for employing people, who I was told was called a Production Manager. And being very cheeky, I went to Denham, and found myself confronted by police at the gate, very high security then - this would h[…]

Freddie Francis

[…] So anyway I was off. That film was photographed by Claude Friese-Greene and the operator was Guy GreenAfter that I'd got embroiled in Herbert Wilcox productions, because Herbert virtually ran the studios then. And there I was until we were doing a film which Freddie Young was photographing with Joh[…]
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