Freddie Francis

[…] on until, then the thing started to split up and they weren’t retaining their units and so we went off to various things. And I was making a film at Twickenham, a Carol Reed film, The Stars Look Down, I think, about the miners. And I went home one Saturday and found that somebody had started a war.[…]

Norman J Warren

[…]e end we decided to go with it and, I will be honest, at thattime we all had the rent to pay. It was also that angle. Anyway we did it. We shot it at Twickenham Studios which was an experience because being a spaceship, of course, the moment you go in for a science fiction thing you have to shoot in[…]

Robert M (Bob) Angell

[…]art as well. So he very kindly bought us out. Arthur an island. And the company, as far as I know, still sits on a shelf in Richmond. At the Richmond Twickenham times demo bins and sprinters that is completely non operative and Puritan films I think is the same. So, at this stage I Arthur was an I l[…]

Rebecca O\'Brien

[…]Really, I'd done a few bits and pieces, but we decided to shoot it the two weeks leading up to Christmas, when the studios would be quiet, and we got Twickenham studios, a studio at Twickenham for really cheap. And what we did was we the week before, we drew the hotel rooms on the floor in a in a re[…]

Chili (Dorothy) Bouchier

[…]ve got Maria Marten nextCB: YesI: at Ideal, was that out at Elstree?CB: I can’t remember. I’ve got a feeling that was shot at St. Margaret Studios at Twickenham. These were tiny whiny parts that I did while waiting for Mr Bramble to give me my big brakeI: Oh, I see, what one day, two days? That sort[…]

Harry Fowler

[…]utely. Absolutely. At times I still say to Kay “Can you believe I was doing a job?” – we were talking the other day I sometimes drive out now towards Twickenham and places like that, and I used to drive to Shepperton, where I did films, and Twickenham, and I used to fill it [the car] with either my […]

Winston (Wyn) Ryder

[…]ad lots of time because the music hadn't arrived.  And in fact, I left it along time before the music did arrive. The very good mixer, Robin, at Twickenham,spent ages trying to filter and soften them, but there was not much you could do about it, it was just like wrapping a pencil on this […]

Peter Tanner

[…] we all got on with a very difficult picture from the dubbing point of view.Roy Fowler: You dubbed it here.Peter Tanner: No we dubbed it at Twickenham.Roy Fowler: This is going back slightly, you mentioned two Cassavetes pictues, I would have thought they'd be quite problematical for […]

Cyril Pennington-Richards

[…]- who is now of course an executive and not quite the same size - aday out. And I have seen him once, I've seen him once since. I was doing a film at Twickenham and he was playing an extra in the film, and he came up to me and we had a chat, a slim young man, you know - now not a slim young man any […]

Dallas Bower

[…]rful but what about the trains?' He said, 'What do you mean the trains?' I said, 'Well, we make it not too near the railway.' 'Oh you are thinking of Twickenham,' I said, 'yes I'm thinking of Twickenham'. 'Oh, well no that's a thought. Yes, indeed once a sound man always a sound man.' [LAUGHTER] I s[…]
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