[…]Norman Spencer, Motion Picture producer interviewed by Teddy Darvis. The date is the 22nd of June 1999. This is side one, and the file number is 453.Teddy Darvis 0:29 Right, Norman, tell us about your parents and your childhood. And when you first went saw a movie and where he was, […]
[…]Norman Spencer, Motion Picture producer interviewed by Teddy Darvis. The date is the 22nd of June 1999. This is side one, and the file number is 453.Teddy Darvis 0:29 Right, Norman, tell us about your parents and your childhood. And when you first went saw a movie and where he was, […]
[…]ovely sunny weather in a calm, calm river. And halfway through the sequence, the sun went in. The wind came up and the Thames looked like the English Channel. And for three days, the unit set on their backsides doing nothing. And I began to get nervous even in all right. Well, they didn't. They didn[…]
[…]ion because I wanted to see what TV was like all. Yes, TV. And every time the action started, that'd be a break for commercials. And I tried American channels, they were worse. I mean, there was sort of shouted commercials almost. And really, it wasn't worth having do anything Dijon at all. One thin[…]
[…]cause Virgilio was clapper as well. John Sharples was a great boffin as you had to be. There was the company radio station that handled ail the telex channels and so on, so you had some mechanics there. You got to know who in the company could fix things. John was a marvellous technician. I've known[…]
[…] is necessary to ensure that the “show must go on.”’[ 4] While Rayment was right to forecast that female projectionists […]
[…] perhaps a forerunner of what was to come later.Norman Swallow: And you still kept that view because I was thinking when you mentioned John Ford, the Channel 4 thing you did from the National Film School.Lindsay Anderson: That's right, Clementine. Clementine was the film which way back in about 48, […]
[…]ecause I appeared to be a very willing, running-type assistant, they put me with Jack Lee on his first film, which was to be shot in Dover and on the channel during the Battle of Britain. It was called The Pilot is Safe, it was a five-minuter, and it was about the air-sea rescue boats. And I went wi[…]
[…]had three heads plus the projector. In other words, we could handle four tracks. Some of this was done was making up loops, obviously, you'd have one channel where you didn't want actual synchronisation, just background, you'd have a loop going round and round reproducing.Stephen Peet 35:44 &n[…]
[…]nons during the war actually, yes, yes. And in fact we went to Wales in, just before I went to North London we went to Wales to escape the blitz in 1940.Where were you, where were you living then?We lived in Hendon, most of my childhood in fact. And in fact we, we lived, but I’vegot no memories[…]
