[…]ars when I didn't do anything at all - up to the time that I retired at sixty-seven I was never once on the payroll of any of the big studios. Either Shepperton, Pinewood, Elstree or any of them, MGM. I'd work in the studios but taken in with other people, but all those years I was never, ever on th[…]
[…]My brother went into the film industry, he was a pilot, a mosquito pilot during the war, and he caught TB, and when he was3rdcured of that he went to Shepperton and became a assistant producer and he worked on Anna Karenina. I remember. I'm trying to think of the films. His first film was Anna Karen[…]
[…]happened after you left Blackpool.EB: I came back to London, I’d given up my flat in Hamstell Hill, and my Mother in Law had got a little bungalow in Shepperton on Thames, and that’s where, when Jim was demobbed, that was the only home we had to go to. And it was there, I had a call from, I’ll think[…]
[…], or very soon after when I had agreed to do it, about next three or four days, Ivan Foxwell phoned me and he asked if I would go down and see him at Shepperton, which I did. And he said, "Look Penny, I want you to photograph 'The Colditz Story'." He said, "I know you want to direct," which I did, m[…]
[…], or were a lot of number of friends, yeah,Roy Fowler 9:44 but in the business, not outside,Speaker 1 9:48 there was a BSc do Shepperton this last Sunday, I think Freddie Young was going to be the bloke in honored. But they they said they were going to lay some transport on. […]
[…] to having the studio camera workshop. Yeah, another person I can remember coming down the studio. This was weekend work, and the picture was made at Shepperton, and it was Tommy Steele in Half aSix Pence . And they did the shooting during the week at the studios, and then we had to do some sound ef[…]
[…]mber of ACTT, ACTT activist, one time Chairman of the Technicolor Shop. Interviewer Alf Cooper. Recorded on the eleventh of April 1989 at her home in Shepperton. Side 0ne.[OI] Daphne when and where were you born?1926 in Battersea, as far as I‟m, yes, Battersea.[OI] And where did you go to school?Mm,[…]
[…]y for a very big firm like this, which had so many sets and enormous amount of light equipment involved.Roy Fowler 33:48 Do you know what Shepperton had been during the war? Totally dark.Speaker 1 33:52 They were closed down for a couple of years. Yeah, and we opened the stud[…]
[…]all the studios.And that’s absolutely true, you’d never believe that in those days.I managed to stop them shooting at, at Pinewood, at Elstree and at Shepperton while I addressed them all.And we got...And we collected quite a lot of money, you know, they were very sympathetic when theheard the story[…]
