[…] May the 10th 1941 the night the St Paul's night then I came and the door right he was so productive about doing the right productive. We had a woman production manager who was very unusually but the very chauvinist outfit the key pair for me but it was decided that we put the unit's we've got not s[…]
[…] wonderful, typical BBC story. The Head of the North Eastern Europe Establishment was a completely humourless man. BBC establishment was always above production people, this was the way that Reith(?) didn't trust artistic people. So the man in charge of North East Europe was a man called Mr Lovejoy […]
[…]that was the title of the signature tune that became quite famous – but that was all that happened. That was to open the studio, this Edward Dryhurst production directed by John Harlow and then nothing happened at all. MGM brought in one picture which I think was Edward My Son which I think was the […]
[…]before they'd even shot it?Unknown Speaker 1:33:41 Yeah, I wasUnknown Speaker 1:33:44 put off by the attitude, I must say, of production people who would be asking us to black films that they were still working on,Unknown Speaker 1:33:59 right through the industry[…]
[…]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 – £[…]
[…] this interesting character, Walter Mycroft, who was in charge of production at the studios. He was a small man who […]
[…]imation people hang around with ponen, Dean and left. So I arrived just after that period. And Marina was obviously the major director there. And the production managers a guy called Harry Pousti, who had no film background, presumably, in fact, I think he came from a travel agency. So I remember, b[…]
[…]hat experience.Unknown Speaker 6:12 Out of that, well, not out of that came another step away to Channel Four. This was a big independent production, I said big because of the scope and scale of it. There was a musical on in Russia in Moscow, called Juno and a vos. It was extremely contr[…]
[…]e shot by a camera man but if it was a talking head that was gonna run for five minutes, it needed a cameraman, an assistant cameraman, a director, a production assistant, perhaps an electrician, even, before long, a stagehand and in the, with the passage of time, this attracted the attention of a c[…]
[…]be a performer.DARROL BLAKE: You started very young ... How did you come to be in thefilm business? From the CV I see that you were a sort of trainee production secretary to begin with.RENÉE GLYNNE: I was something even before that.DARROL BLAKE: Ahh. What was that?RENÉE GLYNNE: We have to know it wa[…]
