[…]boratory did the work. At a rushes viewing we’d have the overnight rushes on the shoot, for instance, looking at the origination of features with the studios, or outside on location as the stuff came through to you, the stuff would tend to come through in the evening, overnight, and we would have te[…]
[…]panded a bit more and then it seemed to me that it should be time to kind of move on a bit; and I think what I thought that what I wanted to be was a studio manager because I’d been doing all this… I mean in the studio and handing them discs and fiddling around with microphones and levels and […]
[…]Windmill Street, opposite the Windmill Theatre, we were on the top floor. And then we moved to eighty-nine Wardour Street, where we took over Edibell Studios - the Edibell company - they had a studio on the top floor and we had the top two floors. And I remember very well we paid three hundred[p1] a[…]
[…]ade on location. We did a small amount of shooting at the old Carlton Hill studios made of Bernie's Carlton case Carlton Hill and in fact we had done my&nb[…]
[…]Then you had the other side which were the smaller labs. You had quite a number of those, there was Universal, Colour Film Services, Filmatic, Reeds. Studio Film Labs came halfway between really, their main side originally was doing commercials and short features. Who else… there was Brent laborator[…]
[…]raduated, but finished then, if you don't graduate from a trade school, I started again slightly off track by becoming an apprentice at the then best studio in London for fashion and advertising, which, of course, stood me in good stead, which was studio sun again, which was then part of the Sun eng[…]
[…]h. It wasn't easy, especially in the Depression years to get a job in pictures.E.M. Smedley-Aston: No, no, that's quite true. Well I...the first studio I ever went into was Beaconsfield where there was a female Art Director, I think her name was Mary Brabham or something like that. Anyhow, she […]
[…]ssex had been in the first world war with Michael Balcon's brother, Chan Balcon who was then in charge of production at Lime Grove or Shepherd's Bush Studios. And I managed to get from him an introduction from Chan Balcon, he agreed to see me. I went to London. I went to Lime Grove, a wonderful stud[…]
[…]o carry on. So we moved up to Shepherds Bush to sort of part of the BBC shanty town houses and the Golden Road and Shepherds Bush place called Golden studios, and we have three little cutting rooms. And we carried on doing their life I think accountant suggested to me that I become a limited company[…]
[…]day night when Monitor used to go out in hospitality to see the programme and possibly to gawp at whatever star. I remember when Callas came into the studio and we were all there for the camera rehearsal which she was virtually directing, she wanted the monitor wheeled in and she would say can you s[…]
