[…] they started to put the soundproofing in then. It was a kind of a wire netting behind which had a sort of material and er...Margaret Thomson: Like asbestos wall almost wasn't it? That sort of stuff, it looked like it anyway.Charles Wilder: ...all stacked in behind it. And then of course it develope[…]
[…]aded there was a grading system, and you gave them all 12 hours and at the end of the 12 hours you graded them. And then obviously you put your best pupils recommended them as a pilots, because the knife went in as so many pilots, so many observes, so many air gunners and they were all going t[…]
[…]ith feeling. And the first one we did which might well havebeen one of the best was about the Gorbals, the slums of Glasgow which was aterrifying scene. And we&[…]
[…]t. Was on the Sunday night. It was in March. I think I was awarded my BAFTA yes Award on Sunday night and on the Tuesday I was at Buckingham Palace&nb[…]
[…]ced plays by Chekov, Strindberg, Ibsen and all the... what were then the new dramatists of the day. Inevitably, this brought me into contact with the best sort of minds of the day. Believe it or not, it brought me into contact with H.G. Wells: the greatest influence in my whole life. It also brought[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]it in really being a filler. I don't know if it would be interesting just to read what was said, 'The British short film Doss House is to my mind the best cinema - entertainment in London this week, I suggest if you're still distrustful of British film s you'll leave the Empire hopeful’, that was th[…]
[…]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[…]
