[…]t and they won't have matte lines. And then the other complicated part of doing the traditional blue screen is that you have to have a thing called a colour difference record, because you're effectively getting rid of the blue layer of a film and everything in it, all the details. So what you have t[…]
[…]gentleman but he was used to using big plate cameras, you know, whole plate and ten by eight and quarter plate cameras. And they were going into some colour photography of children and all the rest of it and one of my memories of him was that he never used a Rolleiflex camera at all, everything was […]
[…] We were working on this film Maytime in Mayfair with Michael Wilding and Nicholas Phipps and all the other Wilcox Repertory Company, it was really a colour sequel to Spring in Park Lane. And at that time Herbert Wilcox said, well if you ever want to leave MGM I should be very happy to employ you in[…]
[…]n case, but nothing else, so I found myself typing letters when all the offices were shut and the only paper I could find turned up in five different colours of copy paper, so I said I hope you don’t mind, Mr Zanuck. He didn’t care as long as the letters got out at least. I just treated him like any[…]
[…] only paper I could find turned up in five different colours of copy paper, so I said I hope you […]
[…]fashion then. But he used to go home every weekend and Agnes. Ashton would have talked him through what was going to happen in the next week and what colours and things, and Agnes would disagree with everything and so he’d come back with all these different things, which was very, very frustrating.[[…]
[…]archive footage to work through. So stuff that you couldn't possibly actually put on screen for that, for the audience at home. And we had some early colour footage of the bombing ruins in Germany as well which was always very interesting. We had one slightly difficult moment where they'd got a last[…]
[…]u've got five release prints going round.Dicky Leeman: Well they were sort of cast as "Ghost Train brown", "Ghost Train red" - they all had different colours appertaining to them.Rodney Giesler: And which other people did you come across at that time? I suppose you knew Arnold Ridley who wrote 'The […]
