[…]beson and Leslie Banks and I spent a long time in the projection room watching the daily rushes and some cut sequences. I remember there was always a crowd of native extras on the ground, living in tents near the exterior jungle film set. It was interesting to note that their shop steward who was al[…]
[…]nchester’s leggy lovelies in Herbie cars or CANDY girls - actually some of our Odeon staff with very short skirts and blonde wigs - mingling with the crowds welcoming Manchester City’s victorious team back after their football success in 1969 as their open-top bus tour passed by our location. There […]
[…]suppose.Speaker 2 1:05:27 Yes, women in love. Yes, that was that was. That was great fun. I had previously worked on Far from the Madding Crowd at Shepperton Studios as a sound assistant. And weirdly enough, I'm not quite sure why, but I did get to know Alan Bates. Okay, and then women i[…]
[…]hing was on absolute shoestrings so you couldn't actually make any mistakes but, you know, we laughed and rebuilt it, as you do. I know when they had crowd scenes, because they had two puppeteers, everybody in the workshop used to have to go up in the gantry and you used to have to make people, make[…]
[…]e me and Johnny Simmons shows with Mr. Music with big bands like Ron Goodwin which I enjoyed immensely. And a series called something like "Three's a Crowd". (The show was called "Treble Chance" It was first broadcast on the 23rd July 1953- MD) One of those three with Jimmy Young. Who else was it?&n[…]
[…]’t think in those days, did you?MD: I don’t rememberNS: There would be a morning ‘waltz’ through and an afternoon rehearsal.MD: What I remember was a crowded studio; there was no room to move. I mean you couldn’t dance and three bears was a very small cast. In ’38 the Vic Ballet did big ballets. I m[…]
[…]use eventually I went on to the committee, and I was a shop steer, and I used to help Mr. Branigan enormously, because Mr. Branigan used to be in the crowd, and he used to do something, yeah, this is how we got various friendlySpeaker 1 11:20 he got injured, didn't he? Yes, because he ha[…]
[…] and some cut sequences. I remember there was always a crowd of native extras on the ground, living in tents […]
[…]e that's out of hell straight for me and they was just across my head and of course one doesn't feel anything at the time but they've plowed into the crowd behind us and killed 50 people. Which was what we then had to film. And that was the most dreadful afternoon. It was a ghastly experience.SPEAKE[…]
[…]p;John Schlesinger: It was 1948 and it was, petrol rationing was still in force and clothes rationing. We sent out a little prototype costume for the crowd to be made out of white sheets and blackout material for skirts, and all the local vicars wives sort of rounded up extras and brought trucks of […]
