[…] all sort of insert work that they were doing in studios, andStephen Peet  25:44  Didn't they have their own studios or animation place in Letchworth or Welwyn or somewhere like that, or was that another group? Alan Izod  25:52  No, I think what they had there, in fact, isn'[…]
[…]must have got some of his artistic talent because I can, whilst I'm not an artist, and I think I I could be a good painter if I tried, found a good sketch and that sort of thing, I found that useful in in dealing with art directors and so on, to be able to sketch out ideas and all that sort of thing[…]
[…]t was in those days, and having served my time under Rule 13 or 10 or nine or whatever it is, where I was limited to both my grade and my department, etc, I did manage to get myself in the clear. And the moment that I was in the clear, I left the coward and went freelancing, which was then my start,[…]
[…]lliam Trytel and his band were the band. Slowly techniques were improving but very slow. The Bush hadn't got Mitchell's yet, they'd still got these wretched Bell and Howell's. And it wasn't until I went to Stoll that I started working with Mitchells and that's an entirely different ballgame, with a […]
[…]ery lucky, in the Summer of 1938 pictures were booming, Fox was making 17 major A films in the studio at once, and a number of B pictures. The lot stretched from Pica to Santa Monica, all the area which is now Century Plaza, Century City, was the Fox lot. I used to live at Santa Monica and take the […]
[…]flexible drive which used to get jammed and wound round your neck occasionally. And we did mainly variety turns, like Albert Wheelan and George Robey etc. And that's about that I think. Then, of course,...Arthur Graham: Where did you go to from there?Eric Cross: From there, I went to Wembley.Arthur […]
[…] chose to ignore my concerns about the getting-rid of Projectionists etc. Apart from Quentin Tarantino in America, I seem to be a lone […]
