A F (Peter) Birch

[…]would care to make a change. Well owing to travel difficulties I was rather tired of going to Welwyn Garden City and I thought, Gaumont at Shepherd's Bush would be much more to my liking.Alan Lawson : When you were at Welwyn, that was Klang Film, wasn't it?Peter Birch : Yes, Klang Films.Alan Lawson […]

adrian-andy-worker

[…] early 1940s as studio accountant for Gainsborough films at Shepherd’s Bush. He claims to have introduc ed the technique of […]

Adrian (Andy) Worker

[…]in 1916. I always wanted to be in the film industry and during the war I got the opportunity - I was a cost accountant, and I got a job at Shepherd's Bush. Much to my surprise I found that the method of costing films was to add up what you'd spent and see what you'd got left in the budget, and that […]

Val Guest

[…]y were aware of what was going on in the department. Joc was known as ‘Dear old Joc’, “Let him have a go at this or that”, he was mostly at the Bush [Shepherds Bush] when we’d moved to the Bush. The Jack Davis came in as an apprentice writer, and at one time, I can’t remember what the book was, but […]

Erwin Hillier

[…]s and we didn't. We already received half a crown sub allowance, which that's all we had, and we met Captain coppos, then the first one in a pub near shepherds Bucha, and we won't talk about the management if we thought of joining a union to be instantly dismissed. But most of us ignore that and we […]

Cedric Dawe

[…]t that time.R. F. As I remember it was a fairly daft project. A picture that size in Lime Grove. Too big for the studio.C. D. And then I went back to Shepherds Bush and the first picture I did there. . . . .R. F. You are a member of ACT now are you?C. D. Yes. Following that was a picture called 'Str[…]

E

[…] Roy Fowler: Well it all began in a cafe in Shepherds Bush which he ran apparently. E.M. Smedley-Aston: Really? Roy Fowler: […]

E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…]is seldom mentioned.E.M. Smedley-Aston: Oh I see, he finished under one as well did he? [Laughs.]Roy Fowler: Well it all began in a cafe in Shepherds Bush which he ran apparently.E.M. Smedley-Aston: Really?Roy Fowler: Behind Shepherds Bush Green.E.M. Smedley-Aston: No, I'm s[…]

Dennis Main Wilson

[…]in the world, really.NS: How much did they pay you?DMW: I was on a pound - I think I was on a pound a week in training. And then I was interviewed at Bush House for languages and after five weeks I went to Bush when I became a general, departmental odd-bod, just playing in discs into news talks reco[…]
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