[…] we're all up on this rostrum [chuckles] and Derek Twist was directing it and before you knew where you were there's a civil war going on between the construction and the art department! And Derek said, "Penn I wish you wouldn't start this." I said, "I didn't start anything, I just asked why we were[…]
[…] you were there's a civil war going on between the construction and the art department! And Derek said, "Penn I […]
[…]rtant figure Harold, in film conservation. He not only trained himself into how to preserve nitrate film particularly, and he was a key figure in the construction of the first nitrate film vaults, ensuring that they were safe from explosion and flammability, but also that they had the correct amount[…]
[…]he casting as well. And I got down to Beaconsfield, and that was a great little place then. And wehad just the two stages, but there was a marvellous construction manager called Bert Roberts. And Bert was always saying, "Oh I don't think we can do that" and you knew bloody well that it would be ther[…]
[…]w recently of, it’s an offset still from In Which We Serve, and it’s quite extraordinary the appearance of, of the people, the workmen.
Mm.
The construction people. They are wearing caps and chokers and, no collars, that sort of thing. And they’re almost like nineteenth century artisans.
Oh[…]
[…]th us and then he moved on. And Michael started writing things himself. We did a series called You Are There, which I can remember, which was re-constructions of, of famous cases and stories like the, The Story of The Mary Celeste, The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Dreyfus Case, he[…]
[…]ghts and also enable anyone interested in the theatre to work in Scotland without having to come to London. And he was looking for an assistant stage manager who was from Scotland. So Kenneth Barnes summoned me into the office and I met John and John was ex flying as well, and the fact that I was ex[…]
[…] You Are There, which I can remember, which was re- constructions of, of famous cases and stories like the, The […]
[…] film particularly, and he was a key figure in the construction of the first nitrate film vaults, ensuring that they […]
[…]t we have finished this piece. And now we're going to do that fit. That as it were, it should intimate by the anticipation. Yes. And he felt that the construction should always be just a continuous flow, like a sort of continuous waveform. And so he took the point and then did it very well. But it's[…]
