[…]Well for heaven's sakes, that's exactly the sort of job that I asked you to look for!" "Oh" they said, "alright well anyhow here's the address, Stoll Studios, Cricklewood". So I got on the tram with my portfolio under my arm, went to Stoll Studios, where I met Clifford Pember, who was art director t[…]
[…]riend who who lived not far away and he was he was a drama producer at the BBC, in radio of course there was nothing else at that time. He had been a studio manager who worked his way up he'd been a number of years at the BBC and he was now a drama producer, David Godfrey. And so one day we dropped […]
[…]as a very important architect called Alastair Macdonald. Now he, I should think is the same age as you and me, he was very very keen on building film studios. He had never seen a real film studio, because there weren't any. Stoll Studios down at Cricklewood was only really a very big empty factory. […]
[…]Sometimes it was cartoon work because Eric Gill the artist set up an animation. Studio where he had a number of artists painting the cells and uh downstairs in&[…]
[…]eing a writer, was presumably a film director-WR: Well for some time – I was so young Les that I don’t really know – he almost took over Beaconsfield Studios, which we were living almost two or three miles away from, and she – when she wasn’t with him – I know one thing she did, she did two liners, […]
[…] away, dear, and when you've got some experience come back and see me." So then I went to see the London Films people down at Isleworth - Worton Hall Studios. And they said, "Oh, no, no, nothing at the moment." So we all went off on holiday down to Cornwall. After I'd been there for about a couple o[…]
[…]dney Budd, there was Jack Rich.Yes.And Sidney was the Establishment Assistant and Jack Rich was the, sort of responsible for the establishment of the studio staff, the, the scenic people and that whereas Sidney was all the programme personnel. And the, the, now what was his title? Jack Knott was the[…]
[…] was the, sort of responsible for the establishment of the studio staff, the, the scenic people and that whereas Sidney […]
[…]raduated, but finished then, if you don't graduate from a trade school, I started again slightly off track by becoming an apprentice at the then best studio in London for fashion and advertising, which, of course, stood me in good stead, which was studio sun again, which was then part of the Sun eng[…]
[…] building film studios. He had never seen a real film studio, because there weren't any. Stoll Studios down at Cricklewood […]