[…]was a great boy. The problem was, as say he did Outcast Of The Islands, he did a think called Rough Shoot I remember. The last film made at Riverside Studios was Rough Shoot, and then the first television programme made at Riverside Studios was a thing called OffThe Record. And my brother was on one[…]
[…]ssistant. And this was at Nettlefolds at Walton Reginald, this was a feature film,Reginald Denham was directing Reginald Denham Denham spelt like the studio is and Charles Hosse H O S S E I think I'm in right but Charles Hosse he made after all famous films Ealing the children's Hue and Cry That's r[…]
[…]nd you go in one way and I’ll go the other, go home together at night’. So I was there for a year, and during that period I wrote to every single filmstudio, and to Arthur Elton at The Ministry of Information seeing if I could train as a continuity girl. And of course, nobody trained continuity girl[…]
[…]ing day, they said we're closed to 3rd of January, can you come over on 4th. So I went over there and I was by someone from Davey Film and Television Studios, Pete Burgen, I said do they know what they want, he said no they haven't any idea. i met a very ni ce chap who runs the museum and knows my f[…]
[…] at the end of Bennett Park Road where the little studio was, you see, called the 'Railway Arms.' And in […]
[…] at the end of Bennett Park Road where the little studio was, you see, called the 'Railway Arms.' And in […]
[…]on't seem to have any talent or skill. You spend all your bloody time in the cinema instead of going to work! Why don't you go down to the local film studios tomorrow" - which was Lime Grove, Shepherd's Bush - "and see what chances there are for a young man? When you leave school in two or three yea[…]
[…] September 1993. side one? Well, first, john, when and where were you born,John Shirley 0:37 I was born 23 722. right opposite Lime Grove Studios in Shepherds Bush. In those days, it was Brooklyn road, or the rather the goldhawk end of, of it was called Brooklyn road. And I very well rem[…]
[…] a tarter and I think I lasted for about two weeks because my shorthand was appalling and I got bitten by the bug. I realised I wanted to work in the studios, I really always knew I was a lousy secretary, I never wanted to learn shorthand typing, I was forced into it because I didn’t think I really […]
[…] my first interview in Denham RF : Whereabouts in the studio? Do you remember? LK: The main cutting room floor, […]