[…]rse, you’re in a collaboration with the director, a producer, with the designer, with the costume designer, with everybody, with the writer, with the actors. And you’re trying to find a balance through all these different talents to make a great film. So yes, it would be obviously in collaboration. […]
[…]ing the film magazines and servicing the camera in that way and you would have a Focus Puller who, you know, was responsible for pulling focus. If an actor moved closer to camera, the focus was pulled forward and vice-versa. So, you would have a minimum of three on camera but you'd generally on a Dr[…]
[…]raining inflicted on them as, hopefully, you got better! I forgot to do a caption, for example, for the person I interviewed. It was John Grieve, the actor, and John Cairney so that was how I started as a journalist and I got to know the Newsroom and so on and, of course, it was very different telev[…]
[…]ore organised. I always liked Shepperton because it was more higgledy-piggledy. It was easy-peasy – it was relaxed. I found MGM was more [pauses]DB: Factory-like.PM: Factory like. Guys on the gate would look at you when you came in, even asked who you were working for, whatever. Whereas at Shepperto[…]
[…]monitor who is awful, you see you’ve got nobody to play to. Oh it’s dreadful that, I hate that, yes they look at the damn monitor, look at the scene, actors acting their damn heads offI: What else do you remember about Woman in Question?JK: Very strong cast. I remember Duncan Macrae, very good actor[…]
[…]t get out fast enough because showbiz was again beckoning. From there, I went into musicals and to rep and that sort of thing. And I was pursuing the actor's career really. I went to Wolverhampton and Hereford and I had about four years of struggling as an actor Darrol Blake 11:34&nb[…]
[…]clever in getting attention, obviously, for the for the film and the sales. And for luckily for me,Rodney Giesler 7:51 because the other factor, of course, was that you have supporting programmes in those days, which you don't haveChristopher Miles 7:55 anyone exactly, I mean[…]
[…] You didn't at that point have sound stages did you? There was no concern about sound proofing...L.P. Williams : No no, no no, it was an ex-aircraft factory Stoll Studios were.Rodney Giesler : And when you were working on two different floors, did you have a lot of height?L.P. Williams : Oh yes, yes[…]
[…]ns did she, even at that early age of fifteen, sixteen?Bernard Vorhaus: Well, I was always pretty definite myself about what I wanted from [chuckles] actors and actresses...Sidney Cole: Yes.Bernard Vorhaus: But she certainly did it with ease and perfection. Working for Hagen was an interesting thing[…]
