[…]ap version of CinemaScope in which we lost probably a third of the negative, so it led to slight degrading of the image and the loss of the beautiful academy ratio. That was all down to… I believe the root cause of that was CinemaScope and the inability of anyone else to make a similar process. Some[…]
[…]DB: Yes – there were two stages on the fourth floor.PM: And there was a glass section – the old glass roof.DB: Oh, still?PM: Yeah. And of course, the best thing for me was there was a railway line behind it, and behind that was Shepherd’s Bush Market, where my lunch hours were spent running up and d[…]
[…]ell you either lose at the top… I mean if you go back to the classics and start using the classics what’s going?Julia Cave: Are we talking about full academy?Alan Lawson: Yeah! You’re going to lose an awful lot. Julia Cave: Why? I don’t see why you should lose anything at the top or the b[…]
[…]st: J. Stuart Blackton, Commodore Blackton he liked to be called.Roy Fowler: Yes?Eddie Dryhurst: [Chuckles] I wonder why?Roy Fowler: Which was a self-awarded title was it, or rank?Eddie Dryhurst: I don't know, I know he liked to be called Commodore.Roy Fowler: Sounds like a Southern Colonelcy doesn'[…]
[…] Electric. Which of course we thought no doubt was the best sound system there was. And there we had finished […]
[…] know. But I was on the council there - it was a time when suddenly at this point of my depression, working at Sam Freight - when the director of the Academy the guy that was the paid running guy of the Academy had some problem which we won't go into... And suddenly the council approached me and sai[…]
[…]e was another Bunker being made here which was being shown and there was an Italian Bunker being shown so ours was never shown but we did get an Emmy award and so did Tony Hopkins, and it was really wonderful. TD: Did you make it in the studio in Boulogne [?] or... AY: No we ma[…]
[…]r: Nominated, and so was John Voight. But sentimentally I think out of, John Wayne got it for True Grit. I think they were more generous at the BAFTA awards. I think they got awards here. Norman Swallow: A very great film John Schlesinger: It's just been revived, 25 years. They've reissued[…]
[…] that book. The other thing that, of course, has been very interesting for me, and the great pleasure has been my involvement with BAFTA, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, where I've been on the council for some years. And I volunteered to be chairman of the programme Committee, which[…]
[…] beginning? Vernon Sewell: Yes, very important. In fact, when his best buddy left, Mickey didn't do any good at all. […]
