[…]mming. In the last year or two I’ve thought, well I wonder what it would be like tobe involved in one aspect of... I mean for me it would probably be production. If you’re a producer there’s a lot of boring legwork that you have to do.SF: But if Sally, with due respect, if Sally Hibbin can be K[…]
[…]d about a week learning how to do it from this boy's gonna leave go in the army. And I became the central loader, as it were, there was more than one production there at the time. So I had to sort of service more than one picture, load, the film, taking on the set, and so on, keep the stock accounts[…]
[…]y wheeled in rails with clothes on which you could have for crowd. And I used to come across clothes which I recognised from some of the lovely Korda productions. I remember coming across a dress which Diana Wynyard had worn in 'Kipps', things like that, but was now in crowd. And you felt, "Oh dear,[…]
[…]But that was also Bruce Woolfe.Peter Birch : Mary Field, Donald Carter, he was a sort of administrator. There was Harold Goodwin.Alan Lawson : He was production assistant.Peter Birch : Well he would write scripts and that sort of thing.Alan Lawson : Can you remember much about the Gaumont British In[…]
[…]tunity or luck. So really knowing nothing I said alright.So I went up to Wakefield. I met Dermod and visited the works and I found I had taken on the production of a film. Interestingly I think that the Sutcliffes had approached at least a couple of documentary companies, Film Centre and that kind o[…]
[…]s in, and it was at Television Centre and I hadto go down the road for the production. Alan Lawson: All the facilities were at Lime Grove.Norman Swallow: Yes they&nb[…]
[…]eadful.Q Anyway, we are back to the end of the second world war. Just before we go on about ACT, did you ever get connected yourself with any kind of production work or..15A Oh, when we were are at Blackheath, the GPO, I was sometimes asked to do a commentary and two camera boys - well, - they were […]
