[…] can’t remember the chap who used to be the assistant director but he used to travel with the prop van when we were doing locations and things in the studio and I used to do his job and my own really at the same time and that was the silent pictures, right? I mean I got on well with old Harry […]
[…]m was a friend of Alan Prentice who was a very, very fast driver and he persuaded Roger Bannister to step into the car and to be driven to Lime Grove studios for the show. Roger was still in his tracksuit at that time, and felt he couldn’t possibly appear in that way on television, and was…per[…]
[…] a visit to, I've forgotten the dear old publicity man's name, at Gaumont British in Lime Grove, can't remember his name, anyway I went and found the studio and there they were, they were shooting one of the Aldwych farces and also building sets for Jew Suss and I was hooked, this was what I wanted […]
[…] away, dear, and when you've got some experience come back and see me." So then I went to see the London Films people down at Isleworth - Worton Hall Studios. And they said, "Oh, no, no, nothing at the moment." So we all went off on holiday down to Cornwall. After I'd been there for about a couple o[…]
[…] wanted to be in films if at all possible was there a sudden stroke of good fortune which enabled you to do that or did you write a lot of letters to studios?John Aldred: I didn't have to write any letters to anyone. As you know Peter being in the industry there is now here was no recognised method […]
[…]eing a writer, was presumably a film director-WR: Well for some time – I was so young Les that I don’t really know – he almost took over Beaconsfield Studios, which we were living almost two or three miles away from, and she – when she wasn’t with him – I know one thing she did, she did two liners, […]
[…]ic film and there wasn't a great deal you could see down in the labs, but that was the duties of the camera assistant.Arthur Graham: At that time the studios hadn't been rebuilt.Alan Lawson: Only the big stage, that had been soundproofed. The silent version of Devil's Maze and High Treason, I think […]
[…]esting overview. One of the areas we’re interested in understanding more about is the branding of Eastmancolor and how this changed between different studios and laboratories. Do you have any insights into how this branding process worked?AM: I’m working on assumptions really, but basically it was t[…]
[…] gives a very clear definition of what Grierson's aim was for documentary... because there was a pub at the end of Bennett Park Road where the little studio was, you see, called the 'Railway Arms.' And in the evenings, the great man would come down and be surrounded by his disciples and the junior, […]
[…] interested from an early age in the theatre and in photography, and in films, not a film buff, but I just and living Gerrards cross, I suppose denim studios was built, Pinewood was opening. And I remember very well, seeing the, the British LAN van going up the Oxford road every day from bekins fiel[…]
