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[…]ribly tedious. It was all 35mm black and white which was reduced to 16mm for release printing.John Legard: They shot everything on 35mm, as we did at British Transport Except the colour travel films. Those were shot on Kodachrome, and blown up to Technicolor Dye transfers. Which was quite satisfacto[…]
[…]nd from the earliest time that I remember him, he was head Brewer at Meux's Brewery Limited in in London, which was practically on the site where the British Film Institute later was in in the corner of great Russell Street. And I think this site was sold way back in the 20s. The Dominion Cine[…]
[…] and that time Jack was floating. (He had been at British Films after leaving Realist.) So it had to be given […]
[…]ell I'll go back and check with him because I think I'm screwing up and this is the head of production of Fox talking to me. I mean I just the humble British cameramen over there to make a film. And I find myself in this position but the they were so frightened of him. I went back to John and said t[…]
[…] States? RW B: They were brought. The overriding struggle of British films, the main obsession of the whole industry was to […]
[…]tter, 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 any misinterpretation of the content of this interview.However, the BEHP wants t[…]
BEHP Interview No 0726t Roger Smither (RS). Transcript. Interviewer: Murray Weston (MW). MW: This interview is No 726 for the British Entertainment History Project. The subject, the interviewee, is Roger Smither, and I’m Murray Weston, interviewing.Now Roger, we start as with most of these[…]
[…]ts but I didn’t anyway.And then, and I think it must have been after he left that he rang up and I couldn’t gobecause he was offered a job at Gaumont British Instructional and he went to work in the cutting rooms and the library was a lot duller.Was that Mary Fields?That’s right, yes, and he was, th[…]
[…]here were you born?Lindsay Anderson: I was born on April 17th, 1923 in Bangalore, South India in the military hospital, I think. My father was in the British army in India, the Queen Victoria's Own, the Royal Engineers. My mother was half Scottish, her mother was Scottish and her father was English.[…]
