[…]t to ask today. So, I wonder if you could just begin by giving an overview – if I can take you back slightly – in how your early interest in film and colour photography started. Where did that spark on interest come from?CF: I started out… my first work as such was for Kodak, and there was nothing g[…]
[…]o Jack North, who was a laboratory assistant to National Physical Laboratory. And it worked out an extraordinary technique for showing shockwaves. In colour in real? Well, when I say in real effect, in real fact, obviously, our models, and I realised this made a sort of totally different situation p[…]
[…]s made by George Schaefer. Made for - oh dear, what are the card people? [N. B. Hallmark]AL: Waddingtons?Kay Mander: No, the American card people. In colour with Maurice...AL: Diner's Club? [laughter]Kay Mander: Judith... oh dear. I think I'm tired - or tireder. Judith Anderson, and Maurice whatever[…]
[…]So, thank you for coming Paul.PC: It’s my pleasureSS: I guess the first areas that we wanted to talk to you about was your background and interest in colour and how you got into thinking about using colour professionally and just a little bit about the early background.PC: Yes indeed. When I was at […]
[…]ings I did which proved to be quite beneficial actually was, I was also shooting slides and I decided wouldn’t it be interesting to try and develop a colour film at home. And you could get a kit of chemicals for developing Ferraniacolor slide film. So I did that. I was in the bathroom; I used a bath[…]
[…] the possibility of a splice breaking on air or the sound running out of sync or something like that, quite apart from the fact that you’re doing the colour grading live on air so you had to adjust the colours and the contrast as you were seeing it, as it happened. The thought was, it’s a live trans[…]
[…]se days, of course, it was the old actt situation and no job no ticket, no ticket, no job. However, I managed to land a job in Mega assembly at technicolour and it was on a shift basis in 1946 mega assembly and technically I applied for the camera department, Frank bush interviewed me and said I'm s[…]
[…]n the opposite side of Berkeley Square at that time and we always knew when there was going to be a raid because the flags on the roof used to change colour. Anyway, we asked if we could use the facilities of their shelter and they refused to open the door. So we sat in this corridor and literally e[…]
[…] to us if you’re prepared to use Fuji stock we’ll give it to you. So we got our film stock free of charge from Fuji. The only thing was it had a colour problem, Technicolor, it took them a while to get the flesh tones right. [TIME 00.58.00]MARTIN SHEFFIELD: It had a very magenta bias.NORMAN J.&[…]
[…]n because they adapted to British way of life. But the way they taught you could tell that they would never fully accept a West Indian because of the colour of their skin. So it was just a sort of no wind situation. So the film was really asking how much people have a right to be different and that […]
