[…]room at Shepherds Bush in lime Grove. What was the central loading room? Well, that was in those days I've been Shepherds Bush usually had about five production six production guy. It was like a film factory really the central low room. So it consisted of a background on the front room. And in the f[…]
E. M. Smedley Aston (production manager) 1912 - 2006by admin — last modified Jul 27, 2008 02:43BECTU History Project - Interview No. 407[Copyright BECTU] Interview Date: 1997-04-30Interviewer: Roy Fowler Interviewee: Fred TomlinRoy Fowler: So starting at the beginning, when and w[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]your entry. It’s... You said Tom White. He was an independent producer at Pinewood wasn’t he?
No, he... Yes, he was I suppose, yes. He was head of production wasn’t he?
Um... Well, production management I would say.
Yes. Yes, yes.
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[…]re A.C. and R.C. Bromhead and the studio manager was Bernard Bromhead, and it was all in the family kind of thing, you know? And the film that was in production when I arrived there was Jack Buchanan and Betty Balfour, and I can't remember the name of the film but they were the two stars of the day.[…]
[…]oting at Cannon. I think they were making the thief of Baghdad then and uh production stopped. The Americans went back to America and uh everyone thought there […]
[…] on a freelance basis. I mentioned Ted Chown in the first instance because he was the first operator that I knew who was on this - it was quite a big production that we started on, that I started on.Arthur Graham: I merely mention it because operators weren't in general in the industry in those days[…]
[…]ys would just do it I was sent for special tuition. If I was playing a leading part I had to go and get lessons, singing lessons, I had to get voices production and movement, in other words had to do it properly. I got quite a good indoctrination that way, played the piano, and learned the guitar la[…]
[…]int of fact I'd gone up to get a job because Francis Howard whom I'd met at the Federation had taken a job as a company secretary with it with a film production company and grazing Road which was called industrial colour films to 16 mill house employing about six people. So he said look I think ther[…]
[…] dio in France but their cutting and all the post production was done in London. So when I was working […]
