[…]ates: 1994-01-20 & 1994-03-24Interviewer: John LegardInterviewee: Rodney GieslerJohn Legard: Rodney, tell us who your parents were, and how you started, and how you got interested in cinema and so on.Rodney Giesler: I was born on the 2nd of February 193I in Manston in Kent, right on the edge of […]
[…] he wouldn't accept anything less than 24 pages. And he used to give you a very sort of wide brief his essay and one of them was my sort of favourite art form or something. So I wrote him a tremendous screed about movies. And he said, it's quite obvious you must do it. So anyway, I went entirely on […]
[…] knows what. But anyway, we worked on this film and of course it was a terrible film to work on because Victor Saville, the director, was a bit of a martinet and nobody knew anything bar him. So a new boy was you know... And then of course there were these enormous great booms that they had, enormou[…]
[…]-1994by admin — last modified Jul 28, 2008 04:32 PMBIOGRAPHY: Tilly Day worked on over 300 British films between the 1920s and 1970s, most particularly as ‘continuity girl’. Her career began at Walthamstow Studios in the 1917 and she received her first credit in 1935 for The Mystery of the[…]
[…] interest at another level, and discovered what we might call art cinema, where there was popular cinema. Before that = […]
[…] Studios before gaining experience as a camera operator, sound recordist, art director and editor. He also became adept in the use […]
[…] another book that I've got called "Film as a Graphic Art", by Vladimir Nielsen. Rodney Giesler: I never came across […]
[…] on, yeah. Fred Tomlin: That's right, this is Vetchinsky the art director, well everybody's there from the studio, yes. And this […]
[…] a Major, he was the production manager, he was the art director... Alan Lawson: Do you remember what his name was? […]
[…]y High School for Girls and that was during the war I think I must have gone to that school in 42, left there in 49 and went to the Central School of Art, did Theatre Design for three years there and Jeanetta Cochrane1 who of course has the theatre named after her now, the art school theatre. I[…]
