[…]u, mm, did you spend most of your time then on, on developing really did you?I spent the bulk of my life on the wet side of the, wet side of the industry.In Kay’s? At Kay’s particularly?7And in Tech if you remember?Oh yes.I mean I, I took over. I had a go in other departments but the bulk of my time[…]
[…]f the four children in the family as naval pensioner, amongst other things, I forgotten what the others were. And my mother was the daughter of a country family in Scotland who subsequently came down to England to live with a brother who had taken up a farm near Leamington Lemington Spa. So we're a […]
[…]er, go home together at night’. So I was there for a year, and during that period I wrote to every single filmstudio, and to Arthur Elton at The Ministry of Information seeing if I could train as a continuity girl. And of course, nobody trained continuity girls then as they don't now, so I mean it's[…]
[…]aker 2:52 and purely from amateur work. You know,Unknown Speaker 2:56 when did, when was? When did you start then in the industry, 1932 I so I see you quite old, really. Well, I was,Unknown Speaker 3:10 I was a clapper man. I think you are the clapper boy.Unknown […]
[…]ceive any specialised training - technical college, poly?Tubby Englander: No, no way, no.Arthur Graham: What made you decide to go into the film industry?Tubby Englander: The fact that the year was 1931 and I had to get a job. I'd just left school and I wasn't going to go back to school again, in fa[…]
[…]ree copies and they'd send them out to the different cinemas and these wicked managers - I suppose their bookkeeping was so haphazard, the whole industry was haphazard, you cannot possibly imagine really - and they didn't send them back. I eventually had 'Bronco Billy', I eventually had a full, thou[…]
[…] he used to bring it down in the mornings and try scenes out on me. So I think that was […]
[…] category, so the films we wanted to make were to try and think how you could use the cinema to […]
[…] yes. And it was actually based, I mean it, I’ll try to explain this because it’s quite tricky. Julian Mitchell, […]
[…] said, "Oh yeah! Continue...er doing this kind of thing, but try and get someone to, you know, er sit down […]