[…]pre-planning of the jury selection committees. I did my share of those.Kay Mander: That would be for what, for the BFA, British Film Academy days? Or BAFTA?Joy Batchelor: BAFTA. And abroad too. I was on the Venice Film Festival, and one in Portugal, one in Spain. There was a general consensus, and I[…]
[…]ther cameramen.KGY: I know Powell says when he saw the way things looked like when Perinal shot them he couldn't believe it and he thought he was the best there was.CC: He was wonderful with women, Pery, marvellous. He was an artist. I think there were others, Gregg Toland was a legend, he was marve[…]
[…]bsp;I'm pointing to the wall at a picture of the Gong Man and I fancy theGong man has been the best man in this industry in this country since it started. The Rank Organisation was in[…]
[…] brilliantly lit compared with some of the others. He was very good, but working on the top-notch movies made here-he got the reputation of being the best.DB. So who do you think were his equal or superior at the time?PS. I can't think, because I'm trying to think of some of the American lighting ca[…]
[…] camera equipment? Was that British, French, American?Eddie Dryhurst: That varied. There was a cameraman called Claude McDonnell who was probably the best cameraman I had. He was English or Scottish, whatever he was. He had his own camera which was an American Bell and Howell, four turret job you kn[…]
[…]ere’s no film schools at all, so we were fighting withthe union, the union was fighting with the employers to get an apprenticeship scheme going. The best units used to really do this sort of thing, that happened to me, that youKitty Marshall Page 9worked for sort of six months editing, six mon[…]
[…]ck : And I think it was a marvellous training ground, The Bush.Kitty Wood : It was.Jim Connock : I remember Johnny Goodman, he's sort of president of BAFTA or chairman of Bafta...Kitty Wood : He started at G-B I as a clapper-boy.Jim Connock : He started - he was a page-boy.Kitty Wood : Well, he was […]
[…]here was this?Bill Girdlestone: At Denham, the last five years. They had sufficient sense to know what I was doing and I was able to produce the best colour pictures that this country ever saw. When I did Oh, What a Lovely War, 1968, we showed it at the Plaza, I sat with Dickie Attenboroug[…]
[…] Daly - Cinematographer. Born in 1955 in London England Awards BAFTA "Persuasion" BAFTA "Far from Madding Crowd" BAFTA Nomination "Our […]
[…] Grand Prix at the Venice Film Festival. Judi Dench won a BAFTA for her role in Four in the Morning (1965).
