Kent Houston

[…]for Disney. He did some work on Fantasia, and he was also involved in a lot of the development of different sound techniques for recording in British studios. He worked with people like John Cox and John Aldred. The interesting thing about my father was that he was an American citizen, and when the […]

Mary Harvey (Welford)

[…]ropes and the lines and were awfully nice, so I really enjoyed myself.What was, what did, what was your, what were your first impressions of the film studio and about the shooting and the other people, cam..., cam..., who was the cameraman for example?Yes, the, well the cameraman was Jack Cardiff. A[…]

June Randall

[…]as evacuated to Australia, where Iwent to school there. And during the war I came back to England and that’s where I gotmy first job, at Gainsborough Studios, as studio manager’s secretary.1: You just sort of went there and, you know, applied for a job and...?Yes. I was looking for a job and I saw t[…]

Godfrey Jennison

[…]s wife and then. He was a charming and nice to the films of all Negroes and thousands in the metropolis. They helped us expand it we moved to Wembley studios. Still. Fox. And had. A Cutting Room a couple of offices and then moved to great courtroom straight at the top of enforcing street. And by tha[…]

John Halas

[…]es. I found work in a (Hungarian) restaurant to do their signs and menus in exchange for food. I climbed up and before I went back to Hungary I had a studio of my own and learned quickly what not to do, what not to believe and how to survive. But coming back from Paris at least I realised that reall[…]

billywilliamsbectu-tape2

[…] and Gilbert Taylor had been using this technique in the studio and putting ceilings on sets, but the majority of […]

Jill Langley

[…]ard by now I'm nearly 20. I don't know if I'm rushing ahead too much.Unknown Speaker  14:07  And it said Secretary required for sorry, film studio. And I thought, I think we've got a studio in both Nan Thames where of course I lived. So I thought. Wouldn't it be great if I just had to go t[…]

Waris Hussein

[…]ing to do with this? So we're going to have to make it work." And we did. Mervin Penfield was allotted to us as our  advisor. We were given Studio D Lime Grove, which we were horrified about because the Television Centre at that time was a gleaming building full of promise. And we were jus[…]
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