[…]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 […]
[…]not because when Rank took over, he may have taken over at that time butit was after the war that he became visibly, all Rank pictures became Rank at ShepherdsBushRoy Fowler: Maybe at this time he was acquiring cinemas as much as anything.Maurice Carter: I think he wasn't so much into production by […]
[…] at Islington or did you sh are them with ShepherdÔÇÖs Bush? RW B: To a certain extent they were shared […]
[…]0. This is Margaret Thomson and John Taylor interviewing. So Charles let's start from the beginning...Charles Wilder: Well I first went to Shepherd's Bush in 1924.Margaret Thomson: Yes.Charles Wilder: That was the Gaumont Company. And um...Margaret Thomson: How old would you be then?Charles Wilder: […]
[…]Behold, I got a job as first assistant to Claude, Friese Greene. George pugno had been in he was no longer at the studio, or he went to go my British Shepherds Bush. And as just as a matter of interest George Putnam was doing air a duty many years later at Shepherds Bush and was blown to pieces by a[…]
[…] variety of studios including Wembley, Cricklewood and Islington. At Shepherd’s Bush studio he got his first experience as a boom […]
[…]to do with the Derby. And there was this particular newsreel one news all Gaumont British news. And in those days, at Lime Grove in Shepherds Bush belonged to Gaumont once, but in the same building, though, besides the studio down in the basement was the processing laboratory[…]
[…]e spot rail and he said, "Would you be interested in a job on the sound?" So I said, "Well, what...?" He said, "I've had a phone call from Shepherd's Bush" - which of course was our parent company - "and they want a boom operator." So I said, "Well I don't know anything about it." So he said, "Well […]
[…]a very interesting... it wasn’t an interesting job, people rung in and said they needed – it was for the Overseas Service down at Bush House I was then...JPH: European Service.DS: European Service. And people rang up and said I need a quarter of an hour recording time to do somet[…]
[…]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 […]
