[…]n. I've worked very hard..." and this, that and the other. He was awfully good about it. In fact it was through him that I did get an introduction to Elstree. There was a man who I think was still a name in the city, called Scringer and he was a director of Associated British Picture Corporation whi[…]
[…]B58Vivienne Collins DRAFT. Tape 2 Side BNo it wasn’t Bushey, it would have either been, it would have been Elstree otherwise, it would have been Elstree. I mean it was a fairly isolated cutting room anyway, thereweren’t lots of people around because I remember, no, there were not lots of people[…]
[…] That’s when you started so you were still well into the ‘silent’ days?HARRY MILLER: Oh, it was silent, yes.  Started in the silent days. Elstree.  I can always remember that I was in the office with Chris Chapman, who was the property master there you know, getting them to make th[…]
[…] bit. And at Elstree Studios. There was a company character called Joe Grossman, who was the studio manager. And Joe gave me a job as a dog's body at Elstree. I was, I was able to think I was messenger boy, I was cool. Boy, I was tea boy, I was You name it, boy. But I remember very, very vividly, th[…]
The copyright is vested in the BECTU History Project. Time Code 00:00:00:00 to 00:45:46:00Ossie Morris Side 1 I worked I worked on was the Morris lighting camera and interview laws on this recording is the copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT history project. Side one. Ozzy.SP[…]
[…]tinteresting. I was expecting to be a clapperboy, I thought that was thebeginning of everything. He said well they need someone in the cuttingroom at Elstree. I'd never heard of the cutting room. I'd heard ofediting but I always thought editing was where the director, I'd read alot of books by Pudov[…]
[…]hat was he - a cutter or something?Rodney Giesler : Yes I think so.L.P. Williams : I knew David Lean of course was with us in the 30s at B & D at Elstree.Rodney Giesler : He was actually there was he?L.P. Williams : He was one of our cutters, junior sort of type. He was always funny, he was a lo[…]
[…]well, because he was one of the ETU members but he was a Shepherd's Bush, but he came out on strike so he got the sack as well. But he'd got a job at Elstree. He'd put my name forward and I got on a second unit of a picture called um - oh I don't know, it was some pirate thing they were making over […]
