Search Results for: BAFTA Picture to Post Best Short film 1970

[…] David Robson: And I built the Nipkow disk and the picture element I think was a neon lamp... Alan Lawson: […]

[…] Jim Shields: Oh yes, well that was a very popular picture. Maurice Askew: I didn't do that, Red Law, er, […]

[…]me when the BBC were transmitting 30 line TV on long-wave I think, and medium-wave.Alan Lawson: Yes.David Robson: And I built the Nipkow disk and the picture element I think was a neon lamp...Alan Lawson: Yes, yes.David Robson: ...and a few valves to pick up the RF, you know. And it worked, but it w[…]

[…]W. then were they?Maurice Askew: No.Jim Shields: They were a separate entity...Maurice Askew: The Religious Film Society was formed to make Christian pictures, and that's when Rank got interested in the film business.Jim Shields: Yes.Maurice Askew: And they had a studio in Crystal Palace, just oppos[…]

[…]orts of things. And I never forget that that was an experience outside. There were beautiful stills big stills of Kong. And what the substance of the picture was so one of the first few lines of the music came and one with a curtain opening and said King Kong. It was very stimulating because the mus[…]

[…]ntry, because of family illness I eventually got married at a time when I just managed to get a job with BIP, you know, the old British International Picturesat Elstree.R. F. Tell us how you set about that? Had you become a film buff, a film fan. Did you go to films a great deal?C. D. No not at all.[…]

[…]pment was so built that you had to thread the machine and then join the loop. You couldn't thread a ready made loop onto the machine. The size of the picture was about 10" by 8" or ten by 12 and the whole thing was rather shakey. Most of the time, and I'm talking about 1936 and 1937 they didn't real[…]

[…] ready made loop onto the machine. The size of the picture was about 1 0" by 8" or ten by […]

[…]my hand so the man coming out behind me didn't seed I've gone out on the working train. I can remember that very very vividly. Well I started and the picture was called Born lucky it was directed by Michael Powell produced by Jerry Jackson and photographed by a camera man who went out of my life ver[…]

[…]an, who was exactly my age, by the way: only six day's difference - fell in love with the play, and said, "This is a film," got British International Pictures to buy it, and that was it! So 'Blackmail' became the first talking picture ever made in England, and I was in the industry. I still continue[…]