[…] the Demon Rat - ha ha - and eventually became assistant stage manager. I remember the first lines I ever […]
[…]n get a recommendation from a colleague, oh, you should try so and so. Or perhaps they might even get an incentive, which was indicated to me by some assistant directors I'd worked with 30 or 40 years ago who were doing, I think they were working in costume, just to keep their hand in on a big Holly[…]
[…]! That's what I did, I burst into tears. But that was fine. I didn't care. So, that was 1979. I: And did you go in as Cameraman or trainee or an assistant or...? R: I think my first official grade was Trainee Camera Operator and I still have the memo somewhere in a little file, along with […]
[…]'t realise quite what I was getting myself into. So for some reason, I thought that they were going to be very happy to talk to me (laughter), and my assistant, Lucy, sort of sauntered off and wandered around Aston trying to talk to the Johnsons, who are on that side. So there's the B6 and the B21, […]
[…]vision than from my side, [my] slightly more academic approach into television, he’d grown up in the cinema, his father was a cameraman, he’d been an assistant to his father in the days when cameramen had assistants. He came with a tremendous amount of practical skills, he came in and developed seve[…]
[…] other thing. Because when you, when you only have ten minutes film, and thenyou’ve got to change the roll or change it yourself if you don’t have an assistant, itreally concentrates the mind, you think, well actually... So that, the question to ask all the time is, should I be filming this, do I re[…]
[…]rted work on Third Time Lucky; Obsession filmed at Pinewood, a gigantic studio where 6-7 films were made at any one time, his first or second film as assistant art director to Duncan Sutherland, involved a lot of set building; Obsession KA had a lot of responsibility; Your Witness directed by Robert[…]
[…]alf, and I did a year as a trainee at the Kodak Institution in Wiltstone near Harrow andlearned the basics of photography. And then I was taken on as assistant camera man by a tempcalled James Hodgson - Jimmy Hodgson - who was, again, an ex news camera man for “TheMarch of Time". And I worked as an […]
[…]ng with Leslie Howard and Leslie was always late coming to rehearsal. On one occasion, I used to rehearse with him in his dressing room and the first assistant director came in and said the men were complaining bitterly because London was being bombed to hell at that time and the workman, a lot of t[…]