[…]that I remember was when we finished work, we used to go to the viewing galleries, which I think were on the fourth level, because there are only two studios open. I think it was four and five, I can't remember. And we could look in and watch said, cars and things like that being shot, you know. And[…]
[…]ilt. The BBC acquired it before the war and it became the secret headquarters of the BBC ends where they ran all the broadcasting farm in underground studios and so forth. A very hush hush. But of course, the BBC after or then turned it into their training school and engineers, both studios and broa[…]
[…]rds, you know, and, and terribly cold in 1945. Oh we were cold and we got even colder because we had to go for coffee, lunch and tea in to Maida Vale Studios where the big orchestra studio was.Mm, Elgin Avenue isn’t it?Y es.Wasn’t it?Elgin Avenue. But we were actually our, our base was St Hilda’s Co[…]
[…] Can you recall your kind of early childhood memories of him at all?SAMUELSON: Yes, that’s G B Samuelson and my earliest film memory was going to his studio which was Worton Hall at Isleworth which subs, subsequently became the Korder Studio and then became the National Coal Board something or other[…]
[…] tea in to Maida Vale Studios where the big orchestra studio was. Mm, Elgin Avenue isn’t it? Yes. Wasn’t it? […]
[…] I was absolutely dead keen on getting into a film studio. Now I thought I was going to be easy. […]
[…]ly-‘60s?PS: Well I started off in the documentary films in black and white, 16mm. I spent a year in Latin America and then I wanted to get studio experience because I didn’t want to work on films which depended entirely on reality, so I came back to the United Kingdom and, forgive me if I[…]
[…]ry, sue.malden@btinternet.comUnknown Speaker 0:01 The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project Ted Hallows studio. Electrician, member of the TU recorded on the 17th of May 1989Unknown Speaker 0:17 in his own home at Twickenham. Interviewer. Ala[…]
[…]ion manager? Andy Worker: No just... Roy Fowler: Just the accountant? Andy Worker: Just as accountant, hmm. Roy Fowler: Well, the studio at that point, the company was part of the Rank Organisation already? Andy Worker: Yeah, hmm. Roy Fowler: Ah hmm, so in terms of prod[…]
[…]ackground you could change it. This was the theory and the practice. And I had virtually ten years at Pinewood doing this and we went to the smallest studios, for example Pathé in Wardour Street to film a Triumph motor car dashing through the Alps on a children's film. We of course had to squeeze up[…]
