[…]sp;with no other technicians were [sic] available. So, to get his son in the picture Sid Randall sent me down today to Danziger’s studios and that's how I became a clapper loader. My first cameraman was a wonderful man called Jimmy Wilson. I can't say too much about the operator […]
[…] Drazin: And so there would be a 'Huggett' in the studio perhaps every year? Manny Yospa: No actually we did […]
[…]nd be in London by about ten thirty and then I could spend the day at the movies and I used to come up at least once a month and go to the Academy of Studio One or wherever the more interesting films were and furthered my own education that way and also had got to know a few people in London because[…]
Tom Peacock ( studio plasterer) 1908 - ? by admin — last modified Jul 27, 2008 02:40 PM BIOGRAPHY:Tom Peacock […]
[…]ero became David Lean, because at that time he was doing Great Expectations. I’d been, I’d been to Denham a couple of visits, I’d got taken round the studios, and I had visited Brief Encounter and, Caesar and Cleopatra, the one with Claude Rains, and things like that, you know.
Yes, I used to go […]
[…] great deal of technical information, particularly regarding the matching of studio and location footage. BECTU History Project - Interview No. […]
[…].07:02DMW: And with Till Death… and the mind is boggled, and things like- because it used to go like the clappers- “How many days did you have in the studio?” “One. Today.” “Oh. How many weeks rehearsal?” “Five days. We did one a week ago, today.” “Unmöglich.” Impossible. We tried to help them, it u[…]
[…]st as luck would have it, my mother, with her engineering background had been contacted by a guy called Les Berry, [actually Les Bowie. DS] who ran a studio – it was basically a big unit – on the Slough Trading Estate, and as it happened it was right next door to Gerry Anderson, who was doing Thunde[…]
[…]t time there were a lot of jobs going in the film... I wasn't called up because of my TB, I didn't pass the medical. So I started work at Welwyn Film Studios - er Warwick Ward was the pseudo-manager, chief of the camera was Ronnie Anscombe, who is quite well known. And he took me under his wing and […]
[…] a visit to, I've forgotten the dear old publicity man's name, at Gaumont British in Lime Grove, can't remember his name, anyway I went and found the studio and there they were, they were shooting one of the Aldwych farces and also building sets for Jew Suss and I was hooked, this was what I wanted […]
