Charles Picken

[…]ations and acquire a bit of a personal reputation among hard-nosed industry professionals in Edinburgh before I had even started to become the cinema manager I would become. Part of this period involved the projectionists at the Film Guild accepting me as one of their own and teaching me the craft o[…]

Philip Donnellan

[…]to actuality recording?Philip Donnellan: Well of course the rule of thumb that was enjoined on me from the beginning was that you didn't mix dramatic construction with actuality material because in some way or others was liable to be confusing to the audience if you had an actor who was a skilled ve[…]

Gerald Chambers

[…]New Town, a breathable, square one. I don't know whether he'd always been in the Navy himself, whether he's actually had any connotations in building construction work or towns or whatever, the faintest idea that that was the job he came from into associated Rediffusion and largely on a recommendati[…]

Erwin Hillier

[…]director was being Irish, Tom Morahan. He also liked the idea, and he also brought in many people you know to work, and built a set for him under our construction manager, came from London supervision, so it was quite a nice blend, having the Irish with the best, you know, we brought over, and it wa[…]

Maurice Carter

[…]Roy Fowler: Everything was very solidly constructed in those daysMyers Carter: I think it was pretty much the same, I can't remember any very many bigconstructional differences at allRough Fowler: How about plaster workMaurice Carter: We had a good plaster department and there was a yard at the back[…]

Derek Threadgall

[…]tly what everybody was doing. What sets were being built. The reference numbers. So as soon as you get on the stage your first person you ask was the construction manager. He's a guy who knows what's going on. That's if they were building or striking. So the construction manager the first part of pr[…]

Anne Hanford

[…]idn’t make fire engines themselves, they made parts of firefighting equipment, it was a huge building with a north light roof, which was not the best construction, and when I first went to look at it the floor was covered in pools of water, it looked like a scale model of the Great Lakes. [TIME 01:0[…]

HP0103 Roy Ward Baker-Transcript

[…] the picture is the sheer professionalism of its making, its construction, the special effects, they all work so well. 106 […]

Ronald Neame

[…]nbsp; 2:45:39  where their respective strengths among the three of you in terms of the kind of contribution, the style of contribution construction dialogue. Ronald Neame  2:45:51  Now we came out of I mean, in the case of brief encounter, now card had quite a[…]
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