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I raced to Elstree to be filmed.
I raced to get here.
All I remember is the old studios, British and Dominion burning down.
Everything else was done in Bourne Wood, then called Elstree Studios.
Within a week I was in love with the place, and still am.
It was the happiest experience in film I've ever had.
It was excited and petrified.
Here I was coming out to the studios.
I wasn't quite in the studio yet, I was in an office,
but at the same time I was going to be around the studio.
We even had sets that didn't have a roof in,
so I could walk from the street into an office.
It was not big budgets.
Elstree was a good place to shoot.
I thought the studio lot was fantastic.
Funky but charming to me in the sense of,
oh that's, I wonder how this will work.
ATV was when they had the big shows, the Tom Jones show,
the Barbara Streisand shows and all the rest of it,
and you'd walk in that bar and you'd go,
oh these faces, these names, you'd be shaking.
It was the last Elstree film that we all worked on together.
It was as if it was yesterday.
It was a vast studio, churning out films, MGM,
because the parent company in Culver City
with the finance to make British films,
and British films were made.
It was all done in Bournemouth, then MGM Studios,
and it doesn't exist any more.
Danzigers, a lot of people looked down their nose at that studio,
but it was very, very good.
Elstree was my start in my career, apart from Danzigers,
and I had a lot of love for Elstree Studios.
No, it really was a lovely little studio,
and I did some nice films there.
I'm hard pressed to think of a major film star
who has not worked at Elstree.
