[…]fferent in those days, it wasn't, sort of, fighting for your job or anything. If your face fitted, everybody was nice to you. So they put me into the production office, with the production manager who was doing Alex's set of short films. There was Lobsters... (what was it?) The Gannets...Sidney Cole[…]
[…]which was a year later, I joined the Cambridge University's Mummers and the ADC and my career as a director took off. My first significant production for the Mummers was Ondine by Jean Giraudoux and it was a huge hit. I'll never forget that John Tusa played the Knight, the eminent John Tu[…]
[…]ars with 'Young Woodley'. And I can remember we never repeated a theatre. And later on one of my best jobs was assistant stage manager on the touring production of 'The Miracle', which was with Diana Manners and Glen Byam Shaw, in which I was the ASM, which is Assistant Stage Manager, and also I was[…]
[…]tage door one Saturday; I suppose the matinee, planning to go to the performance and to call on Miss Morton before the performance.There was a lovely production, newish production of Casse Noisette- The Nutcracker, two acts, the Christmas Party and Land of the Sweets. This was preceded by another ba[…]
[…] film over there and I collect the report in the morning and I'll never forget the report the report was a printed form which at the top would have a production number and so on and the name of the film and then we had to printed the headings and then a long white space underneath and the two printe[…]
[…]the time or did you go out with units?Gordon Hales 18:53 Very seldom went out with units, but when I say a dog's body, you will assign to productions and you have the Junior Assistant and the primary influencer that say when I was lucky enough to meet the assistant assistant of John Monc[…]
[…]if they had a very big film industry is still running right now in the region.SPEAKER: F5And they put a lot into it. So that was. The Crown Film Unit Production neither. Do I want to carry on it okay. So then there were there was a vacancy in the camera department so I went over to the crown the cam[…]
[…]one there were three of them. Each one had a one of the engineers sitting in front of it with the senior engineer then down below behind. This is the production desk with a producer sound and the vision mixer and time a clock hung was string and hand well man that that was off the main main timepiec[…]
[…]the thing as it is.SPEAKER: M8When I sit down and look at some of these films even mighty Joe Young or some of our later films I did with Morningside productions. You say if I don't take in ten minutes more I could have made that scene much better.SPEAKER: M1But I think you owe it to me. You always […]
