[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]e first shooting on Covent Garden, which had a script like the back of the envelope, it was terrible. And I remember Karel used to come to rushes, at Studio Film Labs, because we shot at night and we would see the rushes at about five o'clock in the afternoon, because Studio Film Labs developed duri[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]ent with Teddy Carrick. He thought that would be the place to start someone, with Teddy Carrick who was at Blackheath, which was still operating as a studio for the GPO Film Unit/Crown. And in talking with him it became quite clear that I wasn't a draftsman and I wasn't a model-maker and I wasn't re[…]
[…] he and the news. When did you Where did you start first? And asRichard Marden 22:18 I started first at a place called Carlton Hill studios, and this was in 1946, as a trainee in the sound department, becauseAlan Legard 22:28 I was your contact there. How do youRichard […]
[…] Can you recall your kind of early childhood memories of him at all?SAMUELSON: Yes, that’s G B Samuelson and my earliest film memory was going to his studio which was Worton Hall at Isleworth which subs, subsequently became the Korder Studio and then became the National Coal Board something or other[…]
[…]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[…]
