Jim Peters

[…]eiling all over the place and, when I walked through there, I could see all these shadows on the floor and I thought, 'this must be what a television studio is like!' because on Six-Five Special there was shadows all over the floor so that put me at the idea that this must be what a television studi[…]

Johnny Goodman

[…] And I was taken up to see a very young studio manager who as I recall was Albert Fennell, who […]

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[…]

Bessie Bond (née Span)

[…]r so he was assigned to that. But whentelevision first started we didn’t have an organiser exclusively for television but I remember going to Wembley Studios and the woman there, she was the director, and she asked me to come to show... and it was interesting for me, a completely new development. An[…]

John Brabourne (Knatchbull)

[…]emselves, but it's something I'd wanted to do a really good bit better. It's been a long, long time. And then after that, Richard Goodwin down at his studios rather high, which we used for our officers. Christine edzard wrote a brilliant script based on Charles Dickens durrett. And she had this idea[…]

David Prosser

[…]d a bit of, er, what shall I say.... Newsreel shooting, and I found it one of the most difficult kind of disciplines to get. Presumably because I was studio trained.David Prosser: Yeah it would be, if you were used to features. That was the valuable training in the very beginning about the Newsreel […]

Muriel Cole

[…] then four years later, my parents moved to Emerick Park, and on the morning, on my way to the old Metropolitan line, I became aware there was a film studio, And I thought, Oh, I'd like to work at films studio, and I'd love to work locally. So I wrote for a job. Got one a secretariat awareness, got […]

billywilliamsbectu-tape2

[…] and Gilbert Taylor had been using this technique in the studio and putting ceilings on sets, but the majority of […]

Johnny (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[…]
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