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ALL PICTURES DISPLAYED ARE THE SOLE PROPERTY OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER ROGER GARROD

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Hello my name is Roger Garrod thank you for visiting my page, the pictures I have on display here were taken by myself at MGM British Studios Boreham Wood Herts between 1967/1978 where up until the studio closing 1969/70 I was employed in the sound department as dubbing projectionist.  I also worked as projectionist aboard the P&O Liner SS Himalaya for a few years before jumping ship in Sydney getting married and starting all over again as the Australian film industry started off in a big way working as chief dubbing projectionist at United Sound Studios, ATLAB Sound Studios (Channel 7) and Colorfilm Sound Studio Camperdown on films including:

1. Fortress (1986)
2. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
   ... aka Mad Max 3
3. The Coolangatta Gold (1984)
4. BMX Bandits (1983)
5. Buddies (1983)
6. Midnite Spares (1983)
7. Dead Easy (1982)
8. The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
9. We of the Never Never (1982)
10. Turkey Shoot (1982) 
    ... aka Blood Camp Thatcher (UK: video title)
    ... aka Escape 2000 (USA)
11. Starstruck (1982) 
12. Far East (1982) 
13. Heatwave (1982)
14. Attack Force Z (1982)
    ... aka The Z Men
    ... aka Z-tzu te kung tui (Taiwan)
15. Lonely Hearts (1982)
16. Squizzy Taylor (1982)
17. The Killing of Angel Street (1981)
18. Gallipoli (1981)
19. The Survivor (1981)
20. The Best of Friends (1981)
21. "A Town Like Alice" (1981) (mini) TV Series
22. A Dangerous Summer (1981)
23. The Club (1980)
    ... aka David Williamson's The Club (Australia: complete title)
    ... aka Players
24. Breaker' Morant (1980)
    ... aka Breaker Morant (USA)
25. Fatty Finn (1980)
26. Harlequin (1980)
    ... aka Dark Forces
    ... aka The Minister's Magician
27. Stir (1980)
28. Thirst (1979)
29. Tim (1979)
    ... aka Colleen McCullough's Tim (Australia: complete title)
30. Snapshot (1979)
    ... aka Day After Halloween
    ... aka One More Minute (USA)
    ... aka The Day Before Halloween (USA)
    ... aka The Night After Halloween (USA: video title)
31. Money Movers (1978)
32. Patrick (1978)
33. The Getting of Wisdom (1978)
34. The Night, the Prowler (1978) 
35. Weekend of Shadows (1978)
36. The Irishman (1978)
37. Long Weekend (1978)
38. Solo (1978)
39. The Last Wave (1977)
    ... aka Black Rain (USA)
40. Summerfield (1977)
41. The Mango Tree (1977)
42. The Devil's Playground (1976)
43. Mad Dog Morgan (1976)
    ... aka Mad Dog
    ... aka Mad Dog Morgan (USA)
44. Caddie (1976)
45. Deathcheaters (1976)
    ... aka Death Cheaters (USA: video box title)
46. Don's Party (1976)
47. "Luke's Kingdom" (1976) (mini) TV Series
48. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
49. Inn of the Damned (1975)
    ... aka Death Hunter (Europe: English title: video title)
50. Sunday Too Far Away (1975)
51. The True Story of Eskimo Nell (1975)
    ... aka Dick Down Under (UK)
52. Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (1974)
53. Petersen (1974)
54. The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)
    ... aka Cars
    ... aka Cars That Eat People (USA)
55. Stone (1974)
56. 27A (1974)
57. Alvin Purple (1973)
58. "Elephant Boy" (1973) TV Series
    ... aka Elefantenboy (West Germany)
    ... aka Elefantenjunge (West Germany: rerun title)
    PLUS MANY MORE.....

2001 A Space Odyssey

Most of the pictures are Polaroid's which were taken on set and then discarded to the rubbish bins, I salvaged as many as I could on the day but alas a lot have faded away to nothing and hardly any image is visible now.  I have rejuvenated as many as I can to an acceptable image.  Other pictures I took with my own camera of Stanley, the pod and wheel which have traveled a lot better than the Polaroid's.

Where Eagles Dare

No Polaroid pictures here, private cameras were forbidden on the backlot or sets, so one had to be a bit sneaky to get any pics. The famous cable car sequence was one of the best parts in the movie, only problem the castle "SCHLOSS ADLER" (Hohenwerfen) they filmed on location in Austria didn't have a cable car which was an integral part of the story so a model mountain the height of 2.5 double decker buses was built on the backlot. Even close up it looked real. As I said cameras were forbidden in the studio so I smuggled in a Kodak instamatic disguised as my lunch and removed the paper bag from around the lens and viewfinder and sneaked up the lot in my lunch hour and I am glad I did the mountain was destroyed a week after these pics were taken.

BACKLOT PICS

1968, the window prop on the right was used for a Hammer films TV production called "Journey To The Unknown" this episode starred Carol Lynley the name of the episode was "EVE" about a store dummy that came alive.  You will recognize a lot of set fronts in the other pics they have featured in many movies over the life of MGM British Studios.

"The Dirty Dozen"

  1967/68 The famous Chateau and bridge where all the action took place. Look closely on the right parapet of the bridge and you will see it's still missing from the armored car going over the side. Sadly this set was changed dramatically in 1969 for the  proposed  Fred Zinnerman  movie called    "A Mans Fate" and was turned into a vastly different oriental styled set but was canned and eventually destroyed when MGM sold out.

The last picture I took of the MGM clock tower on my brief return to the UK 1978 the building was then a storage area.  The famous clock tower is all that remained of the great film studio, this is where Stanley Kubrick had his office for many years plus all the studio heads of the day.  The dubbing, mixing and preview theatres were situated just behind this building where I worked most of the time.

Some of the other pictures & TV productions I worked on while at MGM include: "Goodbye Mr Chips", "The Walking Stick", "Salt 'n' Pepper2", "Alfred The Great",  "Journey To The Unknown" [TV-Series] , "UFO" [TV-Series] 

email me if you want to roger@tcb99.com