[…]lly got married at a time when I just managed to get a job with BIP, you know, the old British International Picturesat Elstree.R. F. Tell us how you set about that? Had you become a film buff, a film fan. Did you go to films a great deal?C. D. No not at all. Well we did later on as a relaxation, bu[…]
[…] What did your work entail? !ED: Well, actually doing the set for them, I mean going along and asking what […]
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Right. So that would be, ’42.
Yes, probably.
Right.
And I don’t think I got in until about, ’44 or ’45.
How did you set about it, trying to get a job?
Well I first of all read up about jobs, that was my very first thing. I started buying books on, you know, how y[…]
[…]s an actor, because that's what children think of mostly. Anyway. I remember I went every Saturday and I became so hooked on it. That one Saturday, I set the whole performance. Around three times it was 10 o'clock at night I went in it too. And it was 10 o'clock or so at night, my father came down t[…]
[…]arted on children's programmes, Prudence Kitten and Muffin the MuleI: What did your work entail?ED: Well, actually doing the set for them, I mean going along and asking what the producers wanted. There was Dougy Mare was one of the small programmes, one of the children's sma[…]
[…]ther had a small part in it.Furthermore there’s a wonderful production still that we’ve got of the whole crew in front of this ghastly, cheap looking set. But it’s interesting because it’s got three cameras all hand cranked but it was a three camera job which seemed to me must have been a big deal i[…]
[…]le. He turned out to be David MacDonald who was a reputable film director in those days. I went down to Lime Grove studios with my dad and sat on the set. In his chair. And started work next Monday. In the scenic arts department. As an apprentice.DB: Can you remember the early films that you worked […]
[…]he was transferred to Britain. And at that time, there was absolutely no thought of immediate partition or independence. We arrived in May 47. Hardly settled into what was then a rashioned and grim looking London, bombed out as well. To find that in August, suddenly, end of a way of life. Waris[…]
[…] shot inside Caterbury Cathedral in 1934, which led him to set up a unit with the Religious Film Society. He […]
[…]Cyril Pennington-Richards: He was - we were doing a film which was being produced by Peter- the man who runs - oh God what was the name? 'The Mousetrap' you know...Colin Moffat: Saunders?Alan Lawson: Saunders.Cyril Pennington-Richards: Peter Saunders, that's right, and Paul Barra[…]
