[…]- no, it's going now. I can't recall names quickly.Alan Lawson : Was Percy there?Gordon McCallum : Percy Dayton, yes! Percy Dayton - so right! A very colourful character and I was his assistant on some of the pictures we did there. And he, of course, went eventually to Denham. But we all - I started[…]
[…] the film's down to the hall? And then can you fix the car? So he did all that. And I remember it was a Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis from paramount in colour. And he got he came, he brought the films down, carried them up the ladder, and they were all on spools ready, and onto the machine and we got […]
[…]bsp;oh,Unknown Speaker 32:17 actually, I've forgotten the fact that the suit that I was wearing, it wasn't white as such but it was light coloured.Unknown Speaker 32:25 We arrived at the gig and got hurt. And I was the first to get out was I was lost get in. And to my horror,[…]
[…]ckfired we was with the famous flood sequence which I think the film it was successfully, although it's a quiet sort of Laurentian I called is a watercolour rather rather vibrant oil but he was it was it did pay off it's hopefully it paid off at the end when certainly did well commercially so presum[…]
[…]ther, you know, and, and so, yeah, I mean, I think I'm trying to think my time scale is not very good here. Because what happened? I mean, of course, colour came in and things, dealings in colour and things like that. But then, with the guild, he got terribly top heavy because I think it got too big[…]
[…] two years we heldthe rule that video tape was a way of recording and not editing, you could not edit. It saved a lot ofmoney.Taylor/Peet: What about colour, when colour came in?Denis Forman: Colour was a frightful bore. I mean we all wanted colour aesthetically and Isuppose commercially but the tec[…]
[…] edit. It saved a lot of money. Taylor/Peet: What about colour, when colour came in? Denis Forman: Colour was a […]
[…]nd I mean we were doing the most extraordinary things, working out synch systems and building the most appalling blimp with a - what were those coloured cloths you used to have on kitchen tables, it was covered in that, I mean, it was, I don’t know, plastic. Anyway, the whole thing was extraor[…]
[…]couple occasions we had strikes down at Merton Park. And one was that, in those days, they were shooting black and white, but also we were doing some colour films as well. But while we had a strike, the the electricians, the ETU came out and strike, and we joined them as such, that that because they[…]
[…]or the cutting copy it wouldn't be for the final film that he actually put the lasers in and married up with the explosions at the other end, and the coloured it with a magic marker blue, blue lasers. And it was so good. It was because it was so imperfect, it worked even better than the finished art[…]
