[…]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[…]
[…]as that for?And, well, that was coming up to Fifty..., coming up to 1955, it would have been my ten year bonus.Ah, ha. Ah ha.And then I got a special award in 1962 from Stuart Hood signing a letter.Ah, ha.And I wrote the PA guides and got some money and a letter from Huw Wheldon.Yes, yes.And then I […]
[…] 'big lot', if you know what I mean. I always went round the edges and I was always terribly busy on these, I thought they were you know, the world's best, but they were the world's worst actually!Sidney Cole: [Chuckles]. And your job was enjoyable? You enjoyed continuity?Tilly Day: Oh yes[…]
[…]ad to wait in the stalls while he completed what he was doing and I was absolutely amazed to hear the way he addressed star artists, people like Edna Best. He treated his stars like dirt.AL: Going back to the early days what were production techniques like? How much did they change over the years?SC[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]ng to Hollywood. So I decided the suggestion of a friend of mine, that I do a training course of becoming a wireless operator. Because the minute the awards started coming about wireless operator, merchant, Merchant Navy, you know, and I was halfway through that course and jack Lee ran out. Get Lee […]
[…]it wasn't a good film again, his other eye problem had to do he had was a tygon film. starred George Saunders. Another very fine actor, you know, was Academy Award winner, but he was at the end of his career. And the the money was actually some of the money was backed by AIP who had Sanders under co[…]
[…]ce and “Yes, we’d like you to do it.” Oh, how wonderful. It’s at theOlympic Studio in Barnes and on location and the Cameraman is Tony er ..., mybest friend, can’t think of his surname [Richmond], and the operator is Mike Fox.That’s all I remember of the crew. And I said: “Could […]
[…]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[…]
[…]n named Hibbert, but Linden I think was the chief of the photographic department. He was a Royal - he was an artist, he had his pictures in the Royal Academy and he gave us lectures and demonstrations on portraiture and all that sort of thing.Alan Lawson: Yes, yes.Leonard Harris: Now he was pretty g[…]
