[…]te different now, I think.[2]JR: And were you beginning to feel the urge to do drama?VM: Well, Heron’s Ghyll was quite well-known for its Shakespeare productions, which they did once a year in the grounds. There was a most huge and wonderful copper beech tree and they floodlit that area. We used to […]
[…] to Cambridge I used to devote the long vacation to working with Paul rota productions as it then was in those days. And then when I came down in 43&n[…]
[…]ome reason for saying that and it wasn't a good reason.Sidney Cole: Did you meet, during the course of your career, any of the people who were on the production side, like Alex Korda, or Michael Balcon or any of these people?Jack Rockett: No - I met Mr Balcon. I did take press shows, press parties d[…]
[…]ures in England in that period, features and all kinds of things. Oh yes, he was a busy man.Roy Fowler: There was a fairly healthy English or British production organisation at that time, was there not?Eddie Dryhurst: Well it was struggling to be born in a sense I think. There were a lot of fly-by-n[…]
[…] done in the studio. John P Hamilton He was the production manager? Roy Fowler: No. Joan Kemp-Welch: Probably... Roy Fowler: No... […]
[…] with respect.. John Ammonds 22:02 [LAUGHTER] But no then then this but that of course was wonderful experience again, the production. I wasn't obviously very interested in and I got some music "Music While You Work" and dance band shows, I wasn't as interested […]
[…]sonalities afterwards.Roy Fowler: There wasn't a permanent company was there?Joan Kemp-Welch: No, no.Roy Fowler: These came in for the production...yes?Joan Kemp-Welch: No...and we did The Hairy Ape by Eugene O'Neill, was one of the plays in which there was George Merritt and Pix[…]
[…], Worton Hall combined with Shepperton. So I was a secretary, and then, just let me think of the order of things. I wanted, by that time, to get into production. It seemed to be great to get into production. Publicity was... and I was, I had a girlfriend, completely independently of the industry, wh[…]
[…] on a freelance basis. I mentioned Ted Chown in the first instance because he was the first operator that I knew who was on this - it was quite a big production that we started on, that I started on.Arthur Graham: I merely mention it because operators weren't in general in the industry in those days[…]
[…] film over there and I collect the report in the morning and I'll never forget the report the report was a printed form which at the top would have a production number and so on and the name of the film and then we had to printed the headings and then a long white space underneath and the two printe[…]
