[…]There is some license for exaggeration. DS 2021. The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project.John Halas, animator and film producer, interviewer is Bob Godfrey, the interview was recorded on the 18th July 1990 Side one Bob Godfrey: you once told me you were […]
[…]ack to England. He was the son of a famous visual scientist who was a leading exponent of colour vision. The fact that I happened to be reading Stuart Parsons on colour vision one day as&nbs[…]
[…] to 76 Wardour Street, Ideal Films. I knew nothing about the film business except I used to look at all the trade papers. At that time they were very colourful, and that interested me in films. In Ideal films I was office boy to start with and graduated up a bit to farm out posters and stills to run[…]
[…]en and, I don't know, Muffin the Mule and a few other things moved down there, and which of course, ultimately became an experimental studio for colour.Mm.For years. And that was Lime Grove. And then, so we went up to the Centre into the Scenery Block, we didn't have a studio as I remember it t[…]
[…]om Sloan to do some shows in Sweden and we stopped off in Copenhagen. And Georgia Brown was going to do one of the shows. We were going to do them in colour in Sweden. Sweden wasn't in colour at the time but they'd asked us to come over and make some in colour to give them experience. We did The Gen[…]
[…] and which of course, ultimately became an experimental studio for colour. Mm. For years. And that was Lime Grove. And […]
[…] the Victorian scenes and the scenes with the puppets in colour and shoot the 1930s scenes for New York in […]
[…]y is a genius, I think I know Barry is a genius, he is a writer, he is a painter, he is an expert on 18th and 19 century English and continental watercolours. And he paints quite well himself. He is a brilliant all-round character actor, but genius, thoroughly professional and knows both ends of a c[…]
[…]t he had a lot of friends in the city that before he was readyUnknown Speaker 1:57 for what made you did? What made you decide to go into films. One day,Unknown Speaker 2:05 a friend,Unknown Speaker 2:08 I metUnknown Speaker 2:10 a friend andUnknown Sp[…]
