[…]to a rapid halt. I went home one night, and - it was a Sunday morning I believe, I had to go back for a music session and planes were diving over the studios. I didn't know what the planes were doing flying around, and of course, they were taking photographs of the most mangled, awful mess. You may […]
[…]nk in terms of both activity and individuals, you your own career, you were the dog's body or one of the dog's bodies? What did that entail? Was your studio based all the time or did you go out with units?Gordon Hales 18:53 Very seldom went out with units, but when I say a dog's body, yo[…]
[…]atories, there was Humphries who were in Whitfield Street in Central London, there was Kays and a smaller one called Filmatic who did 16mm. There was Studio Film Labs which became Soho Images who I eventually went to work for down in Soho.SS: Did the labs have… sorry I’m slightly deviatin[…]
[…]st as luck would have it, my mother, with her engineering background had been contacted by a guy called Les Berry, [actually Les Bowie. DS] who ran a studio – it was basically a big unit – on the Slough Trading Estate, and as it happened it was right next door to Gerry Anderson, who was doing Thunde[…]
[…]ey got the contract with the BBC to produce these half hour programmes. But they needed to cut back occasionally to Armando & Michaela in a studio situation, explaining what they were doing so late, if you like top and tail with Armand & Michaela at various places in the programme. The[…]
[…]extremely well. And we were, yes, I've come back, I've now moved up into the motion coating department, I then started to visit a number of labs, the studios to meet cameraman. Because I felt really strongly at that time and so many other people, that the best way of getting the best products out th[…]
[…]Sometimes it was cartoon work because Eric Gill the artist set up an animation. Studio where he had a number of artists painting the cells and uh downstairs in&[…]
[…]bly out of self defence he did put me in his next picture which was called, The Boys of the Otter Patrol and some of it was shot at the old Samuelson Studios in Worton Hall Isleworth and I had to make the journey from St Albans down there. And my parents got a bit worried on two accounts. For one th[…]
[…] heard that Stoll were putting in first-gen equipment and I simply suggested to I think it was not Sinclair Hill but Osborne Mitchell I think was the studio manager.Alan Lawson 22:31That's right Ossie Mitchell.Dallas Bower 22:32You remember Ossie Mitchell? Sid Cole &n[…]
[…]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[…]
