[…]of smoke and it just took the edge off the sharpness and it looked real. Everybody thought we’d got it wrong and we had one or two pretty good scenic artists. When we did Goldeneye Lake Verzasca was one of the things that Martin always thought about, we loved it. Of course, you can’t go th[…]
[…]industry before the war as working in for documentary come here, I guess, one of his jobs when he was an accountant to start with, although he had an artistic flair for other things. And he was recruited by the Admiralty to work on label training. At the end, he was still working for them. In fact, […]
[…]perhaps.RENÉE GLYNNE: Yes.DARROL BLAKE: Caesar and Cleopatra.RENÉE GLYNNE: Yes, Caesar and Cleopatra and Brief Encounter and artistes’tests for long term contracts. So, that came about. Two Cities had been at Welwyn while I was there doing Gentle Sex.(TIME 08.06) So, I […]
[…]so other people could see them.SPEAKER: M5And your mother was very supportive and she was very supportive. She had uh shall we say a lot of potential artistic abilities and she used to make the costumes when I started making my fairy tales after the war and what do you remember what the first film y[…]
[…]own for doing that.And you did all the arts, you did theatre, as you say, theatre, opera, ballet.Mm.Any, anything that came your way.And I worked for artists as well, mm. I worked with Ian Hamilton Finlay, which was great. Mm. So it was lovely.[0:03:30]Main areas of work in the theatre[??], I mean, […]
[…]shot close shot, so that you establish the framework, the general surroundings, the nature of the activity and the details of the activity. And in an artistic sense, you give cutaways ploughing, for example, your show a plough in a field, you show a mid shot of the plough and then the tractor, which[…]
[…]to take this Vinson with a blimp. On the trains in the blackout. On my own. I'm about 17 18 to meet the units in Port Glasgow, and the film was about artists in wartime. And staying at Port Glasgow in this terrible sort of guest house was Jill Craigie, who was directing the film, charming youn[…]
