[…]to a rapid halt. I went home one night, and - it was a Sunday morning I believe, I had to go back for a music session and planes were diving over the studios. I didn't know what the planes were doing flying around, and of course, they were taking photographs of the most mangled, awful mess. You may […]
[…]ul business and you couldn't call your soul your ownand all this stuff and it didn't make any difference. I wrote toeverybody I could think of, every studio, but nothing came of it. As Ihad written elsewhere my mother had always told me the story, it wasn’t astory it was the truth, she, her family w[…]
[…]t thinking about what I really wanted to do. I decided the only thing I really wanted to do was work in films. So I started writing around to all the studios and companies I coould find out from telephone directories and yearbooks and got the usual sorry replies. The only person, interestingly enoug[…]
[…]where Essex had a fabulous technical infrastructure of three telephone exchanges for a phone for each students' residence, they had a broadcast radio studio which was designed to BBC standards with PPMs with Janet Fields with all the bits you would expect to find in an actual broadcast studio. They […]
[…]Beatty: I was all for learning as much as I could, and when I was understudying Raymond Massey he was doing a thing called Black Limelight out at ABC Studios, Boreham Wood, I said any chance of getting the job of your stand in. He said you'11 have to go along to the casting director. He said I'll sp[…]
[…]e work as we weren't doing the job once we got it. And we went our own ways. This time, I then saw a job advertised as an electrician in a small film studio called the Q studios in Marylebone.again being invited to subscribe. Some shares in the company. This were comparatively small amounts. I mean,[…]
[…]d a laser that he used to use to certain things and repairing his car and all that sort of thing.SPEAKER: M1And where did he work. Did he work in the studios or not. No he didn't.SPEAKER: M2He worked there. I had no contact in the studios you know. Interesting. And then finally a friend of my dad's […]
[…] of a Brechin butcher!" He said, "It's a devastating combination!" I: And in terms of, you must have thought at that point, am I going to sit in Studio and Present? You'd indicated, you know, that you were very interested in News and were a bit of a Newshound and I don't mean this in any sense […]
[…]sborough anyway. And so they asked me if I'd do it and I said, "Yes," of course I would and I went over and met Greta Gynt and posed her in the still studio. Got the photographs and took them back, and worked out this portrait, which was, I must admit, given full credit, [chuckles] because the camer[…]
