[…]sp;the first jobs I had. Was to go down to take a package to the film studios in Lime Grove Shepherd's Bush and the whole place reeked of fish when I&[…]
[…]y and what I did was presumably the rule at that time, you become a kind of trainee floor manager in the studio even though you are a producer, it's not a traineeships, you're there. But what you do for the first fe[…]
[…] it was announced that British & Dominions which owned the studio that was burnt down, they were going to become […]
[…] years of George V as reigning monarch. Everybody in the studio worked on that - all the editors, all the […]
[…]bsp; The copyright of this recording is vested in the Bectu History Project. Joe Busuttli - Studio Electrician, Artist, man of many different talents. Interviewer - Alan Lawson. Recorded on 30 June 1997. Side 1 Q &nb[…]
[…]on films on on the movies, you know, for silent it was before electric light we didn't even have electric light? Or, or was this wasn't a studio, it was a field, which we called the lot. It was just a row of outdoor stages, rather like a funfair you know, a cowboy set an indoor dining ro[…]
[…]into television. Television started in 1946 and I with a lot of the others applied to go over. We were accepted and of course we went over before the studios opened. In those years we had two studios, A and B. One was Marconi and the other was Baird. We did a week in each studio. So we used to have […]
[…]ecome universal although they had them when nobody else had them. The geared heads were by Moy – of England which is interesting – they went onto the studio dolly which was wonderful because although it that this enormous weight, it was really easy to operate. At first not many people knew how to us[…]