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[…]hat if you take Apollo Cinemas, large independent chain, they have no projections at all, they simply have one – they call in a technical manager but basically he’s doing everything that the old projectionist used to do.00:12:19 Lamping up, making sure every[…]
[…]terest. And it didn't reflect on the filmmaker in in the sense of giving him more prestige, better money, better subjects, and so on. So, we had this basic weakness. documentary film had this basic weakness of finding an audience and in the end, failed to find an audience because even the non theatr[…]
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[…]. And then there was Radio 5 which, when I went to the BBC was a piece of frequency that the BBC had just parked things on in order to hang on to it, basically. And on it they had parked schools programming, sport and youngpeople’s programming, and they had nothing to do with each other at all, so e[…]
[…]I think the one I remember in particular was, well two, the trial scene which was enormous, tremendous thing with a lot of effects work on it but the basic set and the other one was the escalator to heaven, which was built as I recall by the same people who used to build escalators for the London Un[…]
[…], on one assembly line was the SS Jaguar being built, without any chrome. It had got to the stage where they couldn't put chrome on cars, it was very basic. And on the other assembly line they were building military vehicles. So that was the first real indication I had and unemployment - there was n[…]
[…]nbsp;What was the equipment like when you first started? And how has it changed?Michael Aldridge 6:08 Heavy. [Laughter] I mean, our basic tools. When I started the basic camera was, if you were doing sound it was the Cameflex in a double camera, or it was the ST with either a strip[…]
[…] it and when I left school, I was seventeenand a half, and I did a year as a trainee at the Kodak Institution in Wiltstone near Harrow andlearned the basics of photography. And then I was taken on as assistant camera man by a tempcalled James Hodgson - Jimmy Hodgson - who was, again, an ex news came[…]
[…]else and then emerged but BIP I don't think ever moulded someone sufficiently to become something. It's a very good grounding and a very good sort of basic place but not to groom somebody properly.Roy Fowler: Yes. Although it was I suppose when you were there, the foremost British production co[…]
