[…] of 15 I decided to fire off some letters to studio managers and I got an interview at BIP with […]
[…]o he apprenticed me I was actually an apprentice to a commercial artist, who was a man called halls Hatton ha Double D O N, who had a small room come studio above the premises of Hector Powell, the tailors in Fenchurch Street, and to use to do while the boringly, all the show cards and price tickets[…]
[…]t I liked about it were the stories from behind the camera. They always gave you a list of films in production, and I thought I'd love to get round a studio and see what's happening. So I looked at the films "Upcoming" and I saw that Cineguild had a production on the floor at Pinewood. (Oliver Twist[…]
[…]e work as we weren't doing the job once we got it. And we went our own ways. This time, I then saw a job advertised as an electrician in a small film studio called the Q studios in Marylebone.again being invited to subscribe. Some shares in the company. This were comparatively small amounts. I mean,[…]
[…] at the moviola, and his shaking hand would grab them. Studio Film labs did all our work, and they were in Dean […]
[…]un hell. You'd say “Christ- hell I'm so tired”, but you all felt you · were achieving something. That's my memories of those days. And at the old BIP Studios we had people who went onto bigger things, the accountant behind the window was Robert Clark, and I used to have my cheques paid, he used to s[…]
[…]at year then you were there ready to go up and get a job?That’s right, that’s right.And what was your first job?Well my first job was in a commercial studio... Oh no, that’s interesting, I’ve justremembered. The first job was actually to work for an individual photographer who did a lot of Vogu[…]
[…]ly-‘60s?PS: Well I started off in the documentary films in black and white, 16mm. I spent a year in Latin America and then I wanted to get studio experience because I didn’t want to work on films which depended entirely on reality, so I came back to the United Kingdom and, forgive me if I[…]
[…]if we lost so lacked a little confidence in us, but we went ahead and we put together a team and had a very enjoyable day recording up in the Granada studios in Manchester, and we had a hard fought match against the RSPB, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, which we won. But, sadly, it wa[…]
[…]e was bombed, my mother moved into a hotel and door said we were walking there. Did you Joey? So I said, Well, now, you know. I just keep coming into studio and everything. Because we did we by that time we'd been evacuated to den and we evacuated to Bradley studio in toto library and me and my mate[…]