[…] were partners in certain films that they brought out at that time or acquired, mainly through Hal, I suppose - he knew the producers and did his own productions.INT He did try to set up many productions over here.MF: He did indeed. This was before Eady - Eady was later than that. As I say, it was a[…]
[…]n (1913-1985) and Roy (1913-2001). Their films included Brighton Rock (1947) (Directed by John) and Thunder Rock (1942) (Directed by Roy). Their film production company Charter Film Productions was set up in 1937.5 Vivian Van Damm (1889-1960) ran the Windmill Theatre in London from 1932-1960
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[…] to be some semblance of what I knew about organisation but I was somewhat surprised to find out that there was absolutely nothing. He had an outside accountant that used to do the wages whenever he thought about them and it was a very casual and very haphazard and very slenderly funded operation, w[…]
[…]y renting it out to the exhibitors, I'm talking in film terms. And of course, the same applies to the people, though, who joined together to make the production to meet the dragon intelligence, they're busily renting them out to various television companies, a lot of them, you can read if one showin[…]
[…]e a generator. No earthly possibility of getting a full-sized generator there, so knowing I was fairly mechanical, I said to Dora Wright, who was the production manager, I said, "Look, I'll find you a generator," which I did. I found a ten horsepower Ford with a generator attached to it, it hadn't b[…]
[…]him and I imagine he wanted to cream off a bit from the firm, but in any case it was marvellous for me because we went to, then, to Publicity Picture Productions, which were in Dean Street I think. No they weren’t, we were in Darblay Street, sorry, in Darblay Street. And of course that mea[…]
[…]ey said, Well, would you like to come up and see us? So I did, and I saw a gentleman by the name of Bishop Bert bishop. He was a nice man. He was the production manager for gomats, and then I had to see Mr. Castle tonight. He was the boss in those days. And I went back home, carried on working. And […]
