[…]un hell. You'd say “Christ- hell I'm so tired”, but you all felt you · were achieving something. That's my memories of those days. And at the old BIP Studios we had people who went onto bigger things, the accountant behind the window was Robert Clark, and I used to have my cheques paid, he used to s[…]
[…] E.M. Smedley-Aston: No, no, that's quite true. Well I...the first studio I ever went into was Beaconsfield where there was […]
[…]h. It wasn't easy, especially in the Depression years to get a job in pictures.E.M. Smedley-Aston: No, no, that's quite true. Well I...the first studio I ever went into was Beaconsfield where there was a female Art Director, I think her name was Mary Brabham or something like that. Anyhow, she […]
[…]nbsp;Because my friend [David Mottern?] had an uncle called Archibald Nettlefold...Roy Fowler: Yes...Vernon Sewell: ...who owned Nettlefold studios, and Kay's Laboratory, and he owned the Comedy Theatre as well.Roy Fowler: Yes.Vernon Sewell: And it was through him I got into the […]
[…]m was a friend of Alan Prentice who was a very, very fast driver and he persuaded Roger Bannister to step into the car and to be driven to Lime Grove studios for the show. Roger was still in his tracksuit at that time, and felt he couldn’t possibly appear in that way on television, and was…per[…]
[…]h and you have English Lit training grammar so I missed out of that but I left school at 16 because I was absolutely dead keen on getting into a film studio. Now I thought I was going to be easy. I got home and I used to come home and I'd write all these letters to the studio. I must have writt[…]
[…]o he apprenticed me I was actually an apprentice to a commercial artist, who was a man called halls Hatton ha Double D O N, who had a small room come studio above the premises of Hector Powell, the tailors in Fenchurch Street, and to use to do while the boringly, all the show cards and price tickets[…]
[…]bout another 18 Johns years ago. But John started life in broadcasting with the BBC in radio in programme engineering, eventually became a studio manager and eventually a producer of radio, moved to the north to Manchester, did some television there, returned eventually to London to Lime […]
[…]bly out of self defence he did put me in his next picture which was called, The Boys of the Otter Patrol and some of it was shot at the old Samuelson Studios in Worton Hall Isleworth and I had to make the journey from St Albans down there. And my parents got a bit worried on two accounts. For one th[…]
[…]of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project. Gerry Humphries, sound recordist, dubbing mixer, managing director of Twickenham Film Studios. Interviewer Alan Lawson. Recorded on the 21st August 1995. Side one.Now, first Gerry when and where were you born?GH 11.5.1[…]
