[…]roll of film with my name, production excellence. The only thing we didn’t fare well with… we got 14 nominations 11 Oscars we got 14 nominations with BAFTA and we got bugger all. Still, there you are. That’s the one to have. I have got… [picks up an award]PF: Got the BAFTAPL: There’s a tale wit[…]
[…]him was the stench. It was absolutely appalling. And this was for all sorts of reasons, the rotting seats, there were some dead cats. There were some living cats who scurried about, and it was just utterly appalling. So that was the first major task that we had in the restoration. Was cle[…]
[…]effects are the same camera operator switch to zoom with when he was asked over the top back. We had chambers reverb chambers, which were quite large living room size rooms with no equal parallel walls and the loudspeaker and a microphone. And on one wall were all record sales that were just large f[…]
[…] that happened they dumped it. Now the only thing that exists is a black and white telly recording But it's not quite the same as seeing the original living colour. I think probably they wouldn't do that now. So a few things. One regrets but other things can turn up any time. I mean a few years ago […]
[…]orts in them and we used to put a cross - mostly two days for a cartoon, perhaps, and three days - but then we had cinemas like the Tatler, which was city centre, and we'd get a week's booking and it gave me great pleasure to put the pencil through the whole week. It was good stuff.INT Just while we[…]
[…]rted from there, you know. So it was really from the age of about 11 that I really became hooked and didn't really want to do anything else to earn a living.Unknown Speaker 5:43 Were you interested in cinema at the time as well?Speaker 2 5:46 Well, I was. I mean, insofar as e[…]
[…]en on the individual labs did their own negotiations; only 35 staff working at Perivale at time of interview; HM took retirement in 1989 then went to BAFTA as finance director.00:25:12 – 00:34:26 Universal labs came in as a rival to CFS; 16mm wasn’t considered ‘professional’; they had very few perso[…]
[…]ng at hearing during the war? Can you remember? How did you get there during the war? I mean with no car and seeing where do you weigh Where were you living at that time?Unknown Speaker 31:08 And then I brought me on now soon. Nice three No, I don't know I'd add me so I must be first of […]
[…]ut I couldn’t do it over there. I couldn’t do it away from my family. SC: What was James Mason doing at that time? DM: I don’t know. He was living in a very grand house. And the funny thing was I first knew him in a play at the Gate called Parnell and when it moved to a new theatre, James […]
