[…]t time there were a lot of jobs going in the film... I wasn't called up because of my TB, I didn't pass the medical. So I started work at Welwyn Film Studios - er Warwick Ward was the pseudo-manager, chief of the camera was Ronnie Anscombe, who is quite well known. And he took me under his wing and […]
[…] great deal of technical information, particularly regarding the matching of studio and location footage. BECTU History Project - Interview No. […]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] E.M. Smedley-Aston: No, no, that's quite true. Well I...the first studio I ever went into was Beaconsfield where there was […]
[…]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[…]
[…] it was announced that British & Dominions which owned the studio that was burnt down, they were going to become […]
[…]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[…]
[…] went to London. I went to Lime Grove, a wonderful studio, a sort of Hollywood to me then, little page […]
