[…], but at that time there were a lot of jobs going in the film... I wasn't called up because of my TB, I didn't pass the medical. So I started work at Welwyn Film Studios - er Warwick Ward was the pseudo-manager, chief of the camera was Ronnie Anscombe, who is quite well known. And he took me under h[…]
[…]happens". And then I was told by BIP Directors that I could stay and I could have the Art Direction of not only one picture but two at a time. One at Welwyn and one at BIP and see how you get on with it. And that was the beginning of how I started in the film business. Now doing the two together was[…]
[…]f, and my father was the Chief Projectionist at the Plaza, Lower Regents Street. So there was nobody to look after me as a baby. I was shipped off to Welwyn Garden City, my grandparents, his mother and father. And I was brought up at Welwyn for quite some time. I don't know whether you know Welwyn, […]
[…]o have some German system called Noyhaven[?] or something, I can't remember exactly. [N.B. Low suggests Ambiphone at Elstree, and Klangfilm Tobias at Welwyn] But they were sausage mics and so were the ordinary mics. They were a sausage like that with a little sort of thing at the bottom like this, l[…]
[…]xperience was the only type of person they could apply to to run their sound department at its inception, so I ran the British Instructional Films at Welwyn. And after I think about two years with them, the Sound Chief of Gaumont, George Gunn, he asked me if I would care to make a change. Well owing[…]
[…]s really interesting.Started working for them in 1949 and the first film I worked on was Cairo Road, whichwas almost the last film to be made at Welwyn Studios.Was this Mayflower Productions any connection with the original Laughton Pommer company?They had bought it from Laughton Pommer and in […]
[…]omething even before that.DARROL BLAKE: Ahh. What was that?RENÉE GLYNNE: We have to know it was World War II and I was an evacuee. I was evacuated to Welwyn Garden City. There was a film studio there called Welwyn Studios. We all knew that and we kind of knew what film was beingmade or had been made[…]
[…]h up with you. So, to cut a long story short, how did get into the film business?Muriel Box : Oh dear, very tortuous. I wanted to learn when I was at Welwyn Garden City - I lived there, I'd left home at twenty and a friend of ours offered me a home there - I managed to get a job in the short-hand ty[…]
[…]n’t know whether it was from here, I think it was afterwards; it would be interesting from and ACT point of view; I went to see the Chief of Sound at Welwyn. I’ve only been to Welwyn twice, once was to deliver a roll of film, and once was this interview, and he interviewed me and during this intervi[…]
