[…] you working for?John Aldred: Baxter. I was working for Shepperton Studios and hired out to Baxter and it was 7 Baxter who made Talking Feet. He specialised in children's films in the 40s. There were a lot of children in Talking Feet, Hazel Court was one. It was like a filmed variety show.Peter[…]
[…] was a silent stage mainly used for shooting picture effects, special effects, three shooting stages and one enormous barn called the […]
[…] the early part of the War anyway, I, I was in Ross, I was in school there. Convents, schooling, I can't claim any academic qualifications, but I did specialise in school quite a bit in music, and my mother seemed to think that I had some, I mean, and my mother was one of those people who I think th[…]
[…] the drawing and the face and it was the old special effects, just, you know, the desk, we, we did some […]
[…]aurice Carter: He used to come in and supervise when we needed a Schufftan shot, theywere a separate company, which we employed to come in and do the special-effects.There was a little German chap he used pattern employ, I've forgotten his name now, buthe supervised the work on the mirror. For insta[…]
[…]down in Sussex and now I believe has moved to Worthing and is part of Stowe Public School.RF: Did you enjoy school.VG: Not a lot.RF: Did you have any special subjects you were good at or loathed.VG: Not particularly, but what I do remember doing at school, I used to sneak down very early in the morn[…]
[…] you can go and do it. And it'll be cheaper, basically, and it was quite it were very innovative, I must admit and told me how it was the head of the special effects department at MGM, and MGM had its own laboratory. So we were very much an in house sort of setup, which was perfect, you know, absolu[…]
[…] war is just about over. I suppose I should add that I was a mad campaigner for the Labour campaign, the Labour Party in the ’45 election especially with Peter Cotes, who was the third Boulting brother and I kind of road Peter’s coat-tails dashing from meeting to meeting where he was a ve[…]
[…]oint.SPEAKER: M18Here it is these these were cinemas sorry they were cinemas and one had been a legit theatre in the past but the other was. It was a special cinema so I became very much the film fan and the other important thing was when I think back to it the manager of the of the Regal Cinema in […]
[…]wn the stables from about 9... well, you know, little girls could go down and do things like that in those days... and so I used to draw animals and especially horses and I was really quite good at them. And Doris Cinicin[?] who was a Victorian female and Rosa Bonheur who was also a female and femal[…]
