[…]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 […]
[…]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 […]
[…]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[…]
[…]nbsp;18:09 ... great problems yeah.Jonathan Balcon 18:13 About this time, of course, the Ostrers were developing Gaumont British at Shepherds Bush. And in that great year 1931, which was the year I was born, he was invited Mick to become production head at the new Gaumont Studios i[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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 […]
[…] and the dialogue and background music at the same time. I wonder if that’s possible or I’m imagining it?LH: They used to – what I believe is that at Shepherds Bush in the ‘30s they had what they called a DB section and they would put the dialogue up and the music and mix the two at the same time to[…]
[…] was a heartthrob in those days, you know?I: YesCB: and Lauderdale Maitland, I think, those, those were the three leading players.I: This was shot at Shepherds Bush?CB: YesI: I see your cameraman was Baron Ventimiglia 18 who was a very famous cameraman... CB: Was he?I: do you remember him?CB: No, I […]
[…] feeling it was mostly by tube. Golders Green change at Tottenham Court Rd on the Central Line. Occasionally I think there was a bus that went to the Bush. Certainly I can remember travelling on the tube.Arthur Graham: Did it take you long.Alan Lawson: I had to walk to Golders Green, I suppose the w[…]
[…]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 […]
