[…]arly visited. I had my own close encounter with one of the duo, a six-foot plus blonde with very heavy face and eye make-up whose choice of dress was colourful to say the least. This “might-have-been easily-mistaken-for-an Amazonian warrior” had approached me while I was helping dispense drinks from[…]
[…] I'd met at the Federation had taken a job as a company secretary with it with a film production company and grazing Road which was called industrial colour films to 16 mill house employing about six people. So he said look I think there might be a job for you as an apprentice or a gopher or whateve[…]
[…]olin Moffat: Are you actually in the Commandos then?Philip Donnellan: No no I wasn't then I was in the Seaforth Highlanders. And I passed with flying colours and and and um in November 1942, November, yes November 1942 I was sent to the Isle of Man to the Officer Cadet Training unit at Douglas, Isle[…]
[…] es.
And that’s something I’m really proud about actually.
We didn’t have white bread during the war as I recall either, it was a sort of murky colour that, presumably, everything went into it. You know, I don’t mean extraneously.
No no no. No no. Well I tell you some... It’s funny you shou[…]
[…]hown too often, and so on and so on. I always thought British Technicolor was a bit disappointing: it was a bit dull, all browns and greens, and dull colours. And you looked at a Danny Kaye film, from Hollywood or something and it was like a paint box, you know, flew off the screen. I thought, ‘well[…]
[…] laboratories, so that we could use the original materials, particularly colour separations and things like that . So that was […]
[…]y exquisite Technicolor. Considering that in 1943. Which was almost the height of the three strip Technicolor days it still looked kind of garish and colourful. And this was photographed like old masters because Ducky Slocombe used to go and study paintings at the National Gallery before he'd start […]
[…]p;40:05 Anyway, and what they did, David worked in worked on a number of his films and of course, we were working in 16. When once we went into colour British transport, this is leaping ahead a bit. But it was john Taylor, who said to Edgar, this chap is brilliant. And it reverses toffee nosed[…]
[…]precaution and I could just watch it and if anything happened I could call in and I helped him with the changeover because used to mark the film with colour on the outside and I would watch the finishing projector and within the first few came out the same mode they'd start the other motor only conn[…]
[…] but I got interested in science when it became mathematical. I was interested in it when you could mix two chemicals together and they either change colour or blue up one or the other. And, but it's the moment I got into science in school, which there was one of the masters who took me on under pre[…]
