James (Jimmy) Gilbert

[…]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[…]

Christopher Challis

[…]ushes the first time.CC: No I didn't rate being invited. I was too low down the scale. Technicolor were quite different to — if you were working on a production you went as member of the production crew. The rushes at Technicolor were still a much higher 1evel operation, just heads of department and[…]

Alan Lawson

[…]ade some films for Tiffany Stahl and my father sent me to see Maurice Elvey and Maurice Elvey said I'll pass you on to L'Estrange Fawcett who was the production manager. And L'Estrange Fawcett said you've come at the right moment, there was movement going on at the camera department, I think David L[…]

billywilliamsbectu-tape3

[…] that the cinematographers will be all sitting together. And the production designers and the editors. You're all in little groups, you're […]

Alan Lawson

[…] I'll pass you on to L'Estrange Fawcett who was the production manager. And L'Estrange Fawcett said you've come at the […]

Robert Love

[…]o you remember McCallum, which was about, it was based in London actually, it was quite a new venture for STV! I: Is that when they produced SMG Productions? R: Yes, I think it probably was. I'm slightly hazy now about when that actually kicked in. I: What actually was that? R: W[…]

Larry Allen

[…] had you?Larry Allen: I bought a wooden one to start with, then I bought a Bell and Howell, see? So I thought, "Right, it's time now I went into film production properly," see? Well a friend of mine who is a big noise in the film world - later he was - he was then, and his father was a big director […]

Ann Turner

[…]gh in my leaving party said that I was probably the person who invented this step up for female staff between the typing pool and the continuity girl production assistant is now called, and getting somewhere more creative. I was nearly thrown out several times the bluerinse, ladies in BBC staff appo[…]

Freddie Francis

[…] So anyway I was off. That film was photographed by Claude Friese-Greene and the operator was Guy GreenAfter that I'd got embroiled in Herbert Wilcox productions, because Herbert virtually ran the studios then. And there I was until we were doing a film which Freddie Young was photographing with Joh[…]
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