[…]in Love you know and Billy Williams came in and supervised the grade on that and subsequently Billy then showed it to the whole BSC showed it at BAFTA got a BAFTA award. It’s fantastic that these films can be made to look like they’re brand new, and that’s the wonder of Eastmancolor.SS: Do you […]
[…]ors. You see, this is another thing that whereas we centralised everything, under, under me, actually. Not only films, but slides, slide tapes, still pictures, we had all the still pictures still working to British Transport Films. And this was an economy. But it's only an economy where the volume o[…]
[…]is Strachan 3:03 That's, that's absolutely correct. The Salvation Army Citadel was the first building in Harwich to show moving pictures. Derek Threadgall 3:12 And all that came to an end, really, in 1909 Yes, the cinematograph act. Yes, Chris St[…]
[…]sounded a bit ominous you know. That was a great time, I remember that quite clearly. The film that we were working on was dreadful, it was a B picture comedy and I can’t remember the name of it. [Penny Points to Paradise] TD: Can you remember the name of the director by any chance?[…]
[…]d them. And then after a time one of the co-ops wanted a - they were having a fete and they said, "Can you send someone along with a camera to take a picture?" [Laughs] They gave me a camera, a 16mm camera - I'd never held one before! And I went out and I took pictures of the fete. Then I said, "Wel[…]
[…]ht up during the war, and of course immediately after the second war, the major form of entertainment in this country was in fact the cinema. Or the 'pictures' as we used to call it, cinema is a more recent and rather upmarket word. And I'd gone to the local polytechnic for a commercial course of sh[…]
[…]e three that were successful. The other two were totally different. Onewas the film on design of stamps, called Picture to Post, which I got the BAFTA for, and again, Arthur was my cameraman – no, he wasn’t – sorry, it was Douglas Ransom. Andthat was, again, a glossy film but it was g[…]
[…]days, you see, I took in the days when, I mean, there was a famous photographer called Jimmy Sign of the Times. My job in those days was to get these pictures in any pictures of trains into the and the times in those days would print a half page of photographs, or one on Bucha troughs, we used to go[…]
[…]sp;are running into '31 andthe slump is loomingBefore we do that, could you mention any of the pictures youparticularly worked on, or, you know, contributed to?Yes.. "Robson's Choice" with I […]
