[…] Women’s labor in a range of roles across international film production has been the focus of substantial scholarship. Some notable […]
[…]So, I was taken on and was posted to TV Centre and found myself in, what was then called, television recording department which nowadays we call post-production. That encompassed videotape operations and telecine and film work and transmission and that sort of thing. So that’s the department I found[…]
[…]rst film and he decided to shoot it all on location within reach of the theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon because the actors were sometimes engaged in a production in the evening. I don’t know how that was possible because most of our shooting was at night being A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but anyw[…]
[…]which was a year later, I joined the Cambridge University's Mummers and the ADC and my career as a director took off. My first significant production for the Mummers was Ondine by Jean Giraudoux and it was a huge hit. I'll never forget that John Tusa played the Knight, the eminent John Tu[…]
[…]d: God! It's a baptism of fire that, isn't it?Peggy Gick: God, it was a nightmare! But somehow we did get through. And it wasn't...we had a very nice production manager, whose name I forget...and it wasn't until the end of [the summer?] that he came to me and said, "by the way, how much experience h[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]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 […]
[…]k that part of getting franchise back was to employ more women so, you know, it was an ideal to have, because when I started there were female P.A.s [Production Assistants], now Tina Wakerell would have been the only female Director, I think, at that time, and I was a female Designer and Morag Torbe[…]
