John Shirley

[…]HP transcript DisclaimerThis transcript has been produced automatically using Otter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for a[…]

Margaret Dale

[…]g, which is a double occupation. Camera rehearsals went from 10:30 to 1.In the case of Turned out Proud, I used the first half hour with cameras only basically explaining to the floor cameramen what their positions would be and what they could expect, because I didn’t want to tire the artists. If I […]

Geoffrey Conway

[…]ent up they also improved the quality, the quality was improved extensively, especially the colour film, and as most people know it Eastmancolor is a basic film negative, it is used by almost all the other colour products as well, and all the colour prints, Manny Yospa: They use the same formul[…]

Geoff Labram

[…]P  0:00  We're in the theatre five at Pinewood at the date is the 25th, Tuesday the 25th of October 1988. And we're going to go through the basic questionairre first, and then hopefully, if we don't get out all the bits and pieces we want from the, we'll go over to the more specialised que[…]

Christopher Challis

[…]as an operator, I didn't serve a long apprenticeship as an operator. It did help me a lot because nearly all pictures were in colour then. I had this basic training in the process and I knew what it would do and what it wouldn't do.KGY: Do you know if Technicolor were concerned with any competitors.[…]

Adrian (Andy) Worker

[…]p;Andy Worker: Yes that's right. Roy Fowler: Was that part of his career structure do you think? Was that how he... Andy Worker: No I think basically he was quite a good actor and he had a very distinctive voice and um...made a meal of it! Roy Fowler: Right. The Ostrers are an interes[…]

Sydney Samuelson

[…]em er at some I don’t know, the Royal Television Society some some (yes) senior executives says to me “I used to be a production manager with ..... “ Basic Films or World Wide or someone like that. He said “I can remember bringing you camera back and your wife came to the door with a child under eac[…]

Sheila Collins

[…] Hope and Glory, John Boorman’s film about the Blitz and the war – did that ring any bells for you? Certainly, because after all it was set basically really in Carshalton which was not very far away from where I lived, and while I was a couple of years older than he was at the time, I cert[…]

Bill Mason

[…]ding in the middle of the circuit taking pictures, got us some very good shots and survived.AL: What kind of camera equipment were they using.BM: We, basically we almost always used Newman Sinclairs. The great thing I suppose in the late 40s it was decided we would have a new camera and Newman Sincl[…]

Richard (Dickie) Best

[…]othered sincethen.AG: What were production techniques like when you first started and howhave they changed.DB: Are you talking about the cutting room basically.AG: Your particular field.DB: Well obviously films were shot in a much simpler manner than theyare today. I don't think any film was ever sh[…]
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