[…]e a generator. No earthly possibility of getting a full-sized generator there, so knowing I was fairly mechanical, I said to Dora Wright, who was the production manager, I said, "Look, I'll find you a generator," which I did. I found a ten horsepower Ford with a generator attached to it, it hadn't b[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]him and I imagine he wanted to cream off a bit from the firm, but in any case it was marvellous for me because we went to, then, to Publicity Picture Productions, which were in Dean Street I think. No they weren’t, we were in Darblay Street, sorry, in Darblay Street. And of course that mea[…]
[…]nt, I wish I could think of his name but I can't, and his secretary and I think that was about all. And then on the next floor up, of course, was the production office with our production manager and the newsroom. The news editor was Ted Adams and our production manager was Jack Ramsden who prior to[…]
[…]could imagine, he was directing George Formby once and it was George Formby’s birthday and he got the sound department to put two drawing pins in the production chair and I was off-stage with a wind-up generator which can give you quite a nasty shock and I was supposed to give George Formby a shock.[…]
[…] then on the next floor up, of course, was the production office with our production manager and the newsroom. The […]
[…] and resources of the History Project volunteers and encourage greater production autonomy. To this end, one key individual (e.g. the […]
[…]ied typically if you're a woman but no, I managed to escape all that.Ian Noah 30:20 The World in Action and seven up and so these are the productions that you're working on at the time. Yeah, swinging 60s.Simon Rose 30:28 Yeah. Well, I entered the business a good time. I thin[…]
