[…] had some very good animators at Halas and Batchelor.Joy Batchelor: Yes we did. We had a lot of very good animators, and we lost them all.Kay Mander: Bob Privett?Joy Batchelor: Bob Privett was one of the early ones. The best we ever had, Harold Whitaker. And he still works for us sometimes, but main[…]
[…]on Great Expectations, it was arranged that he would be the producer. So Ronald name produced great expectations. We did the tests, as you know, with Bob Kraske. And then I think the film was photographed by Guy Green, who up till then had been a camera operator was given his first task, and he's a […]
[…]on Great Expectations, it was arranged that he would be the producer. So Ronald name produced great expectations. We did the tests, as you know, with Bob Kraske. And then I think the film was photographed by Guy Green, who up till then had been a camera operator was given his first task, and he's a […]
[…]e any specialised training, did you go to technical college.Alan Lawson: The only specialised training I had was I had aspirations of being a kind of Bobby Howes so I learned tap and soft shoe dancing with a very well know coach called Matheson Jones who had little school in the Vermalton Pub in Gre[…]
[…]became more ambitious and we made a film which was a sound film the following year. We were helped very much by somebody who was with Kay Labs called Bob King, who helped us a lot, he subsequently put his son onto us for me to help him, so the wheel came full circle. The first film was a great succe[…]
[…]ase, Alan was on that, and I heard the story from Thorold Dickinson and I think it was very largely Thorold’s idea.EC: Thorold, me and the cameraman, Bob Martin. Yes I can tell you exactly what happened.SC: Yes, do.EC: Basil Dean is on the side here and the re's the door there and now the police com[…]
[…]bs and things. And then my sister, who had come over to Britain in the mid 60s, was working as personal assistant and secretary to an animator called Bob Godfrey, and one day she said to me, Well, if you're not really doing anything, do you want a job as a runner? And I just thought, Okay, why not? […]
[…]d then when the blacklist came in they fired him and Yul took over as director and it was probably the most effective show of its kind in those days. Bob Stevens, Robert Stevens I don't think you'd know him but Rob, Bob was a very good director marvellous with the camera the extraordinary things he […]
