[…]t used my own imagination, you know, trial and error. Well, as I said, we travelled the seaside places - well the seaside places in them days, silent pictures. No gramophone, no wireless, and - but there was a lot of these 'What the Butler Saw' machines, on the promenades. You put a penny in and er,[…]
[…]d makes that no one played around whether I got in a way or interfered and that was the made the first major film they were doing a Margaret Lockwood picture when I was at the bush. First before that, they were I think it was wicked lady memories a bit vague. That was That was awkward. Well, that's […]
[…]to move about. And of course, every slashers noise wasn't just on the floors at Elstree were by no means equipped to this island. And so making sound pictures was very difficult. That was one thing. The other thing was that the sound engineers as they always have ever since, with due respect, consid[…]
[…]hen with the full time officials involved the preproduction meetings for studio base pictures was done by the Joint Committee because each studio had the joint works […]
[…]e that. But there was a place that they always used to go to called the 'Kameradschaft der deutschen K�nstler' which was a sort of - well it was like BAFTA, you could eat there, and drink there and meet your friends.Sidney Cole: Did you see a lot of films in Berlin?Kay Mander: Oh yes! Masses! - I sa[…]
[…]nt Maurice!Maurice Elvey : Well, Bernard Shaw was Bernard Shaw.Ralph Bond : Quite! I believe that while you were in America you saw your first moving picture. Is that right?Maurice Elvey : Yes. This was not on that occasion, because I went to America again. I went to America again in 1912, where I w[…]
[…]say that was my introduction to the film business.SC: How old would you have been then?RP: I would have been four and a half, five. He made then many pictures at Teddington Studios, some are in the archive and some have not yet been transferred from nitrate stock to [unintelligible].SC: Mm, that is […]
[…]gate that you had the clips for but you had to undo two scripts to take it out. And it was known as the Ideal, I think because it had come from Ideal pictures. There was that and I examined that thoroughly and got to understand it a little bit. There was also a tiny little camera called the Sept whi[…]
[…] he said "Have you ever thought of becoming a motion picture designer?" And I said "no, I hadn't, it sounds […]
[…]t arrived and Francis was a very dashing wee chap from ATV and London and very much a Light Entertainment specialist, and indeed, hadn't long won the Bafta for a show with Millie [Millicent] Martin, as I recall, as Light Entertainment Producer of the Year when we got it. Anyway, Martin, sorry, Franc[…]
