[…], yes.Kay Mander: In other words... it's very difficult to say what a continuity girl's job is anyway, because it varies from picture to picture, but basically you want to know that it'll cut together, and that it's going to look right. And to tell the editor what you've shot and what he's got to do[…]
[…]the film context.That’s right, that too.Like your aunt.So there we are, anyway. We got to...Well, you were starting, you’d started...I’d started with Basic Films, yes. Well now Basic Films then of course were working withfilms for the Ministry of Education. If you remember the Ministry of Education […]
[…]sibly partly because of that embargo which demonstrates how very important it is to not to make your biases too clear in all forms of life. But basically when I was in the army from 1942 to 1947 lots of people said, “Oh but that's an Irish name” and I didn't know it was an Irish name but they […]
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[…]about the army, what did you do in the armyBill Cotton Jr: I went into the army, I joined the army at Norwich, in the Royal Sussex Regiment, I did my basictraining which was a miserable 6 to 8 weeks. I don't know,it's wrong to say it was miserable, it was a very, very startling experience I suppose […]
[…]he working week?Tubby Englander: [Laughs] The working day was from when you arrived in the morning and you left the studio, that was the working day. Basically I think the working day was from 8 o'clock in the morning - where I was concerned and where the assistant was concerned - 8 o'clock in the m[…]
[…]ema business formally and instilling in me the rudiments of film make-up and repair splicing, spooling off, lacing up and running a show as well as a basic grounding in easy to correct presentation faults for those inevitable times when the show doesn’t quite go as planned. This would serve me well […]
[…]do it’, so they’d all say ‘I’m not going to do it’. So I’d sit round having a conversation about ‘How should we organise who washes up’? You had this basic accommodation’.[20:08]SF: Yes, yes.Three hundred and fifty miles away from London.SF: [Laughter].SF: Wow.15Name of interviewee Susan Crockford D[…]
[…]it. You had to know there was a Boer War, there was a Queen Anne and there was a Prince Regent, you had to know they - you had to have the very, very basic knowledge, which people apparently didn't have, and people didn't understand it. I saw it running somewhere when Joan and I were out, we saw it […]
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