[…]b. starting in I think it was September 61 as a boom operator's assistant at the princely sum of seven pounds a week. And I started on a film called "Waltz of the Toreadors". The mixer was John Mitchell. The boom operator was is Tony Cripps, and the sound camera operator was Roy Charman. So, I could[…]
[…]ld go on a track near Madrid, and then I realised why there are speed limits on tracks, ‘cos it quite frightened me. This train was coming towards me waltzing, and it was presumably not allowed to go very fast not because of the train but because of the track [laughs]LH: Really.WR: And it was wobbli[…]
[…]0 bobs of the last week. Many, many years later, I have a friend called Fergus MacDonald, another editor in the business and his wife was a friend of Walter Forde's and Waiter Forde was a friend of Joe Bamberger and it all happened in the South of France one day, and we were all sitting round and he[…]
[…] extras and doubles and shoot all the dog stuff. But Walt Disney himself was very enamoured of the dog stuff and […]
[…]g period just to prepare it and they were altogether absolutely lovely employers, that's all. Then I did that and...Linda Wood : Did you ever meet Mr Walt Disney himself?Anthony Mendleson : Yes I did, funnily enough. Because when we did 'The Moon-Spinners' out in Crete, we took over (we took over!) […]
[…]ed by The Fighting Prince of DonegalMaurice Carter: Yes, that was a Disney film. I went over to Burbank for discussions andRoy Fowler: This is 65, so Walt is still aliveMaurice Carter: Yes, I met Walt. Very interesting working there, everybody had to keeptheir doors open, Walt wouldn't allow anybody[…]
[…] that and... Linda Wood : Did you ever meet Mr Walt Disney himself? Anthony Mendleson : Yes I did, funnily en […]
[…]ot into the advertising department of the LMS railway, which was at this time, run by a wonderful impresario called Loftus Allen, great man and Harry Walt had just made nightmare. And so Loftus Allen said the railway must start making its own films. He had that kind of magic touch. And I was in the […]
[…]I was very young. I mean, it was I mean, I found out more now doing writing books on the subject and things but Disney had a series of comics for the Walt Disney comic, I think, I assume, I don't know. But it was sort of it was in colour as well, heaven forbid, we're going to the 50s here. And there[…]
[…] away some years ago. A nice guy, a real union guy seems strange to become a studio manager, but that particular time, we had an outside let from the Walt Disney Productions, and they used Merton Park Studios to shoot a few scenes, but is also used as a base because they were working out in Switzerl[…]
