[…]ted to go to live action. I joined Film Producers Guild and did animation for about eight or nine months and then had the chance to go to Merton Park Studios where I stayed for just over a year as a clapper loader.Michael Aldridge  2:02  The industry then, the film industry that was, becam[…]
[…]e, you know, put outside the theatre in older shop portraits. So he mentioned it to Mason, and he said, Well, that'd be interested in going to a film studio. And costs I was and the reason he was able to do that was that his son was called Bert Mason. And Bert Mason was an operator at Riverside stud[…]
[…]for the newsreel.Speaker 1  45:48  Oh, that was the labs at Lam grove. They did everything there,Roy Fowler  45:53  including the studio. Oh, yes, yeah. Do you remember Bill Goldston? Yes.Speaker 1  45:58  And then he went to ranks. He decided at Denham, I knew Bill gor[…]
[…]r so he was assigned to that. But whentelevision first started we didn’t have an organiser exclusively for television but I remember going to Wembley Studios and the woman there, she was the director, and she asked me to come to show... and it was interesting for me, a completely new development. An[…]
[…]h, I think I...I've got a connection somewhere..." Anyway, about a couple of months later, he said "Now, if you ring up a Mr Bunny Williams at Ealing Studios...er the old ATP..." I said "Er...yes" He said "and he may be able to help you." So I rang up Mr Williams, and of course I was always taught t[…]
[…]reat friend of mine.Yes, yes.And he used to come and he used to call me his little Linda Darnell. [Laughter][Laughter]And he asked me to go up in the studios, because we had studios at the top of Pathé, and do a film for him. And that was a night out, a box of chocolates, a bunch of flowers and a tr[…]
[…]I can get you an interview. I didn't know anything about anything. And he said, maybe you can take it from there. So the only time I've been inside a studio before that was about sort of them. When I was about 14, I went on a visit to Shepperton and I thought this was magic, I think they were making[…]
[…]d a bit of, er, what shall I say.... Newsreel shooting, and I found it one of the most difficult kind of disciplines to get. Presumably because I was studio trained.David Prosser: Yeah it would be, if you were used to features. That was the valuable training in the very beginning about the Newsreel […]
[…] an interview. I went there and it was the offices of PCT, Provincial Cinematograph Theatres, and I got the job. And I'd a letter to go to Twickenham Studio and I went there, that's still as an office clerk, which wasn't my scene. Well, while I was there I got to know a fellow who was joining the fo[…]
