[…] had a set in front of you and you had another set on your extreme right and you could pan from one to the other, ad lib until ready. You had, we had 4 full lenses on the turret, there was a Vinten H, you had four lenses on the turret and the only way you could change you size of shot was by swingin[…]
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[…]s the type of material being shot, that you might see variations on a period piece being shot then you would do a movie that was flicking across from channel to channel, with all action scenes and, you know, explosions and things, you won’t necessarily see issues in the background and stuff. But the[…]
[…]ocation. Very often in a very bad state. They think that their idea for their film hasn't happened.They've got some point they want to get across the channel. character didn't turn up or the weather was wrong, the camera man didn't understand it. And it's all disaster, maybe we could just about make[…]
[…]get a star for it before we get the money. BBC have asked me to do something and they've turned down something that I want to do which may be done by Channel 4 but I don't know yet. So I'm dealing in terms Norman Swallow: This is a film you want to do John Schlesinger: Umm. It's very, beca[…]
[…]department, in the music recording room I took over the boom and helped to mix and all that and when it got to the dubbing stage, which was about two channels, I can always remember going up and loading one sound head, because the other one was on the projector, sticking a couple of records on a thi[…]
[…]r system was introduced in 1951 and it consisted of the camera film, Eastmancolor negative and - we love these four-digit codes in Kodak [laughs] – 5247 was the original one. And then in order to make multiple release prints from that, you had to make a duplicate negative because you don’t want to r[…]
[…]ome to the Monseigneur Theatre at Marble Arch and there’ll be a few people on, relating, there will be airmen, there will be various people, swam the channel, people like that and you’ll be the newsboy and you’ll be interviewed by Roy Rich or Elizabeth Cowell and you will relate your vicissitudes”. […]
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