[…]know, it seemed such a waste. Because I mean the scripts weren’t written of Tinker, Tailor, it was just the rights, you know, on that.Yes, yes.And so Arthur Hopcraft, you know. It was great, Arthur Hopcraft did that.Yes, yes. Mm ‘Old Men at The Zoo’?Old Men at The Zoo was, I loved that. That was Jon[…]
[…]f their pictures.7Yes, yes.And David Lean was the editor and, and Jimmy Wilson was a cameraman.Mm, mm.And Jimmy Carter was the, he was the assistant, Arthur Graham was the operator.And Jimmy Carter and I got on very well and then we’d gone to meet his, gone to seehis sister one night because actuall[…]
[…]ontinually find yourself thinking, "This could go", and then thinking, "it can't, it's got to go back". These were really difficult, I think, to cut. Arthur Miller's, A View from the Bridge , which I cut, he didn't alter anything, because I had to cut that down. He didn't alter anything, he accepted[…]
[…]is is um, what's the director's name? Oh...Marcel Varnel, this is Marcel Varnel the director.Bob Allen: Ah hmm. And the cameraman?Fred Tomlin: That's Arthur Crabtree.Bob Allen: Oh gracious! It is, yes?Fred Tomlin: And of course these are all ancillaries and er Phil - I forget his name, he was the ca[…]
The copyright of this recording and transcript is vested in the BECTU History Project. Bryan Langley was interviewed by Arthur Graham on 18 November 1987.1. Improvising with film stockAG: We're on the different types of film stocks. What were their differences, and what were their special requiremen[…]
