[…] an interview. I went there and it was the offices of PCT, Provincial Cinematograph Theatres, and I got the job. And I'd a letter to go to Twickenham Studio and I went there, that's still as an office clerk, which wasn't my scene. Well, while I was there I got to know a fellow who was joining the fo[…]
[…] Alan Lawson: Yes that's right. Leonard Harris: Well he was studio manager then and of course that was a pretty […]
[…] the job. And I'd a letter to go to Twickenham Studio and I went there, that's still as an office […]
[…]one was getting in to the building and there I was one day going in to the building at STV, working in the Film Library but I'm in there! There's the studios, there's the cameras, there's the cameramen and it was a great time. Fondly remembered, those times. [15:28]I: So how many of you were in[…]
[…]those days you called everybody uncle. He turned out to be David MacDonald who was a reputable film director in those days. I went down to Lime Grove studios with my dad and sat on the set. In his chair. And started work next Monday. In the scenic arts department. As an apprentice.DB: Can you rememb[…]
[…]s it?Alan Lawson: No, no, no. P. C.Leonard Harris: And he became a producer later on, yes...Alan Lawson: Yes that's right.Leonard Harris: Well he was studio manager then and of course that was a pretty big job. He was sat there in a big office with a big desk you know, [chuckles] and he said, "Well […]
[…]rupting you too much, so you carry on.Charles Wilder: Yes East Acton was near Shepherd's Bush and the bosses then were A.C. and R.C. Bromhead and the studio manager was Bernard Bromhead, and it was all in the family kind of thing, you know? And the film that was in production when I arrived there wa[…]
[…]s really, so it was really after that. Anyway, I never got my chronology wrong. I'm not sure. I'm not sure whether, whether I was attached to reading studios after that, or whether it was in between, whether it was in between the two invasions, I'm not sure. But anyway, I was attached to eating stud[…]
[…]ssex had been in the first world war with Michael Balcon's brother, Chan Balcon who was then in charge of production at Lime Grove or Shepherd's Bush Studios. And I managed to get from him an introduction from Chan Balcon, he agreed to see me. I went to London. I went to Lime Grove, a wonderful stud[…]
