[…]ys leaving far too slowly believe you me! [LAUGHTER]Sid Cole 21:31You've left BIP to go and join Stoll, Stolls. Why was that? Was the equipment more attractive?Dallas Bower 21:40Much more attractive and the, I didn't like the[…]
[…] I can help - I'm a neighbour of Sir Oswald Stoll, I'll give you a letter of introduction. He gave […]
[…] to one of the masters who asked what I wanted to do and I told him I wanted to get into films and he said I can help – I'm a neighbour of Sir Osvald Stoll, I'll give you a letter of introduction. He gave me the letter and I sent it off with a brief note. Two days later I got a letter saying please […]
[…] as an Art Director working for Herbert Wilcox at the Stoll Studios, Cricklewood in 1928. He remained with Wilcox, moving […]
[…]said "Well for heaven's sakes, that's exactly the sort of job that I asked you to look for!" "Oh" they said, "alright well anyhow here's the address, Stoll Studios, Cricklewood". So I got on the tram with my portfolio under my arm, went to Stoll Studios, where I met Clifford Pember, who was art dire[…]
Len Lawrence Laboratories, Technician, Editor (Stoll, Humphries, Technicolor)BECTU No.81Interviewers Alf Cooper (AC) & Alan Lawson (AL)Date: 12/04/1989 Side 100:00:00 – 00:03:58 Introduction; early life; schooling; 11 plus exams; first job in a fruit shop; working in an ironmongers.00:[…]
[…]nks very much," I went round and saw him. And then he gave me a couple of days work and then somebody else put me onto a studio over at Cricklewood - Stoll's at Cricklewood, and I worked over there as an electrician. And this gradually went on and I got several jobs back in Islington Studio, it used[…]
[…]reak in recording]00:05:22 – 00:14:17 Trade unions; attempt to establish a film workers union in 1920; the company eventually went broke; DD moved to Stoll Studios as a camera assistant working with D. P. Cooper; first film was about horseracing directed by A. E. Colby; 16 years at Stoll – threatene[…]
[…]Fowler/Lawson: Yes, I’d left, yes.Bill Girdlestone: I thought you were there till they shut. Where did you go?Fowler/Lawson: I went to Stolls with Dick in ’32. With Desmond Dickinson.Bill Girdlestone: Was Des at Shepherd's Bush then?Fowler/Lawson: No, he was at Stolls.Bill G[…]
