Norman Fisher

[…]n Fisher: Once again I had an introduction to John Grierson through Sir Gordon Craig, again, and I was taken on as assistant sound, incidentally, the studio manager then at Blackheath was Ralph Bond, and there were a lot of well-known people there, oh, Cavalcanti, Harry Watt, Arthur Coldstream, many[…]

David Watkin

[…]ing for his later career; working with Ralph Keene on Under Night Streets.00:29:00 – 00:38:00 Shredded Wheat commercial with Richard Lester at Viking Studios all using reflected light; Lester asked DW to work on The Knack and light the film the same way; DW believed that direct lighting looks artifi[…]

Robert Scott

[…]and Billy Connolly before he grew to be really famous. The University's audio visual unit was very supportive of Unit Sixty Five and let us use their studio at lunchtimes and also let us borrow their film camera from time to time. Jim Harold, who was the head of the audio visual unit let us borrow a[…]

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[…]

Jack Hildyard

[…] 2:10  a friend andUnknown Speaker  2:13  a girl actually her uncleUnknown Speaker  2:16  was the chief engineer at VIP studios in Elstree.Unknown Speaker  2:23  He said, Why don't you come and join us in the film business?Unknown Speaker  2:27  And […]

John (Johnny) Goodman

[…]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[…]

Cy Young

[…]urnalists ATV and Anne Diamond I got into TVAM whihc was nationally. ENG one inch you know it I really wasn't happy because a lot of it was recording studio output or assembling Commercial know it not always editing in the sense that it will be nice to think you know a third of it would be proper ed[…]

Michael Colomb

[…]ed to be called out or called out on emergencies but usually they let me sleep through it. And on the very I went up knocked on all the doors all the studios I went up to see is it D C Sewell head of sound. The time they were producing the wicked Lady 1946. Mason & Grainger  to Ealing. I di[…]

Esther Harris

[…]name.And I was his secretary. And he used to do these scripts, you know and he used to take me with him to do the shorthand, Letts, make notes at the studios when he was making these trailers.Oh.And he used to, when he would then do the script and ask my opinion, [Laughter] and I must have been incr[…]
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