[…]r her previous secretary, and I, and then I heard while I was still with Hannah in the house, that somebody at Walton Studios, which now was wanted a production secretary, and was I interested, and I said, Well, I don't really know what a production secretary is, you know, I've only ever really work[…]
[…]lo, Johnny, I’m setting up a company called Trident Films', he said, 'and I just wondered if you’d be interested in being Executive in Charge of Production'.
I practically had an erection, it was so totally unbelievable. 'It sounds very interesting,' I said, trying n[…]
[…]ars with 'Young Woodley'. And I can remember we never repeated a theatre. And later on one of my best jobs was assistant stage manager on the touring production of 'The Miracle', which was with Diana Manners and Glen Byam Shaw, in which I was the ASM, which is Assistant Stage Manager, and also I was[…]
E. M. Smedley Aston (production manager) 1912 - 2006by admin — last modified Jul 27, 2008 02:43BECTU History Project - Interview No. 407[Copyright BECTU] Interview Date: 1997-04-30Interviewer: Roy Fowler Interviewee: Fred TomlinRoy Fowler: So starting at the beginning, when and w[…]
[…]ort of think about this, so I used to, I used to apply for these jobs. There were all sorts of things in television and there were, you'd see jobs in production, I fancied that so I used to apply, and I never got anything, not anything.[15:12]And, by the way, one other interesting, small sideline, i[…]
[…] I was more involved with the Production Office, with the Production Manager , who was Roy Parkinson , and the Production […]
[…] and directed. We had a PA then, which is the Production Manager now. We had a Production Secretary, the question of […]
[…]with the commercials side. And, secondly all the shooting of those were done in Paris. They had a studio in France but their cutting and all the post production was done in London. So when I was working with him which was in Clarges Street in Mayfair, they had the cutting rooms in the basement. […]
[…]to have big print on this big print orders. The diatribe. I mean most most productions carried you know we had two to 300 print order on on a first fe[…]
