[…] 14 of course I was choreographing a film called, which was quite interesting, a film called Pagliacci, and I think I'm right, I think it's the first British film ever to have any colour in it.LW: Richard Tauber. Yes, it's got a sequence in colour at the end and at the beginningWT: Do you remember y[…]
[…]check densities – Beaconsfield I learned an awful lot, because we had our own little lab, which when the studio wasn’t working did release prints for British Lion, for oh what was his name, Smith.LH: Herbert Smith?WR: No Herbert was the younger brother, big brother[?] they had quite a good distribut[…]
[…]there that my granny frequented, and who I was brought up by, by the way, by granny, and he was telling everyone [American accent] “how wonderful the British are.” And he left the pub and he was interviewed again by somebody on this newspaper and he said “yes” and as they left, he put his hand into […]
[…]ctor who ever lived. One would be there on the set and listen to him, a Hungarian who was not very good at English giving line readings to British actors, you know it was a bit of a revelation and they would look at him but they did do their best. I don’t know if you know much […]
[…] as a young Jewish kid felt quite persecuted at school. They would institute things like let's chase Schlesinger, it was a sort of pogrom. I mean the British have been nothing if not anti Semitic I think tradtionally. And I remember the sort of interest in German expressionist films at that tim[…]
[…]d from time to time as assistant for other cameramen. Other cameramen I worked for—I remember working for—were James Ritchie, later a producer at the British Rail Unit, and John Reed [UNVERIFIED], John R.F. Stewart, and Bill Pollard. It was with Bill Pollard I remember having possibly my most enjoya[…]
[…]l, he came down. Billy Shenton also came down and did some extra scenes, or some extra camerawork. We also did some experimental sound recording with British Acoustics but it was a full width track and the picture camera had it's two back legs in a special kind of booth in the sound van and it was a[…]
