[…]sgrave: So you'd moved from Ryde.John Aldred: Yes we were living near Hayes, Middlesex, at the time. I went along on the Monday morning and the first production was a comedy called Wanted with Zazu Pitts and Claude Dampier. I was very impressed when I saw the first day's rushes - I didn't know what […]
[…]ood to work with Hugh Alexander, who would publicity for 20th Century Fox, I enjoyed that enormously. But again, that ceased because 20th has stopped production. But through Fox, British, I heard I was introduced to Ernie Marlowe of Ealing studios, who employed me as his secretary, but failed to let[…]
[…]th. But we were in the studio by and large and over on East 52nd Street by the river, which was the warehouse where the sets were made and stored and production meetings and things were held. So we were kind of a family a first names gang as I said before and not as disciplined as we might have been[…]
[…], I don't know. But there was an enormous amount of material. The films of course survived mainly, I don't know that all films survived, the Concanen Production had somewhere archives, well I don't know. (background someone: I don't think a lot, no, what about Unfinished Journey, would that have bee[…]
[…]n the meeting room of the British Film Commission, at 70, Baker Street in London, and the interviewee is no less than Miss Erica Masters, a legendary production person in our industry, sadly not living in this country any longer. I have the pleasure of doing the interview, my name is Sydney Samuelso[…]
[…]ght. But I saw an advert in the Daily Telegraph saying that the right organisation we're going to get into the business of filmmaking how they wanted production accountants with a budgetary knowledge well I'd done about four years with the with the Lucas grew up in Burnley making tanks and things. A[…]
[…]what it was all about. There was a picture being made On Top of the World at Shepperton. Tony Nelson Keys [Anthony Nelson Keys] was the PM [Production Manager] and I don't know how but I suppose through Norman Lee's influence I got a job as the 3rd assistant. That had Betty Fields playing […]
[…]d this work at Chamonix-Mont-Blanc and various other places, Nice, and it was a bit difficult with Monty and Harry Lachman because I think it was the production manager who went down with a nervous breakdown and we were left with the accountant. I did make one of my only appearances on the sc[…]
