[…]don. So it was just a question of getting a job. And as it happened, as luck would have it, it was purely and simply luck, the first job I got was at Stoll Studios in Cricklewood. And I was living at the time in Christchurch Avenue which was only, in those days, a penny bus ride from Stoll Studios a[…]
[…]ay: Yes, and there were still silent pictures then. 1919.Sidney Cole: And, for instance, you see, sometime previous to sound, you worked at Stoll andplaces.Tilly Day: Oh yes I did, I worked at Stoll's, that's right!Sidney Cole: But how long, I don't know, how long were you at Sto[…]
[…] me £3 a week and I was immediately given a raise up to £2, they said think again and stay with us but I decided I'd had enough of that and I went to Stolls and I worked on, I was on second camera at Stolls, Jerry Gibbs was on first camera with Desmond Dickinson and I think the other member of the c[…]
[…]g into '29 now, getting February, March. And what's happened is now, the old Music Halls are beginning to go broke, they're feeling the pinch. So the Stoll circuit and the Moss Empires, they had their own circuit of - so this is where you first come along to the circuits. They had their own theatres[…]
[…]ys leaving far too slowly believe you me! [LAUGHTER]Sid Cole         21:31You've left BIP to go and join Stoll, Stolls. Why was that?  Was the equipment more attractive?Dallas Bower  21:40Much more attractive and the, I didn't like the[…]
[…]think is the same age as you and me, he was very very keen on building film studios. He had never seen a real film studio, because there weren't any. Stoll Studios down at Cricklewood was only really a very big empty factory. They used to do Smith's Clocks.He and I met. Now he was Ramsay Macdonald's[…]
Len Lawrence Laboratories, Technician, Editor (Stoll, Humphries, Technicolor)BECTU No.81Interviewers Alf Cooper (AC) & Alan Lawson (AL)Date: 12/04/1989 Side 100:00:00 – 00:03:58 Introduction; early life; schooling; 11 plus exams; first job in a fruit shop; working in an ironmongers.00:[…]
[…] to one of the masters who asked what I wanted to do and I told him I wanted to get into films and he said I can help – I'm a neighbour of Sir Osvald Stoll, I'll give you a letter of introduction. He gave me the letter and I sent it off with a brief note. Two days later I got a letter saying please […]
[…]said "Well for heaven's sakes, that's exactly the sort of job that I asked you to look for!" "Oh" they said, "alright well anyhow here's the address, Stoll Studios, Cricklewood". So I got on the tram with my portfolio under my arm, went to Stoll Studios, where I met Clifford Pember, who was art dire[…]
