[…]ea. And we the thing about Merton Park, was it it did a lot of different things we used to have a lot of feature films came in not for their complete production but because either they'd run over at Shepperton or something or they'd done retakes and all that sort of things. And I was just thinking t[…]
[…]bout designing for silent films. Did you work for any of the Mid-West chains?C. D. No I didn’t do any film work out in the States.R. F. I didn’t mean production work. You said stage work.C. D. Oh yes, that was in Canada.R. F. In theatres rather than cinemas.C. D. No not cinemas. Stage shows. It was […]
[…] 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 […]
[…]y exciting or unusual or different, but because of that people saw in the studio that I had done a lot of that sort of work and Donald Wilson was the production manager on it. He might have been first assistant, he might not have moved up to production manager in those days, but it was he who then g[…]
[…] owned the Glen cinemas was never seen, and some of the people at the Hall had never seen him. He never it never came out. What happened was that the manager was appointed. They were in other places, often the whole keeper, but in banchory, they were the local electrician who was Alexander Fraser. A[…]
[…]quite a successful dressmaker. And she had - amongst many of her clients - she had a lady whose husband happened to be at that time the general sales manager of a film company called British Lion Film Corporation. And Sidney Myers was looking, or somebody within British Lion was looking for some you[…]
[…] yes of course! I was thinking of Stanley as a production manager or some thing. Stanley, the man himself, yes! Mickey […]
[…] yes of course! I was thinking of Stanley as a production manager or something. Stanley, the man himself, yes! Mickey Hickey: […]