Gerry Fisher

[…]n the sort of technique of, of using space. And I can remember vividly that being extremely useful to me, when I used to do handheld camera work on a crowded room, I could actually manoeuvre myself in the space that was becoming available the next second, I actually did that. And I thought it's only[…]

E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…]od singing voice, and so she played the DuBarry, which was quite a big production.Roy Fowler: I'm looking at a still, an exterior still, a large crowd, elaborately costumed. Where was that? Is that on the back lot?E.M. Smedley-Aston: No, that's Aldenham Park, which was a country club, just[…]

Wendy Toye

[…]member very well Jonah Jones, when we did The Stranger, I wanted the front door that he went up to to have a gate because I wanted to cut back on the crowd watching him and chatting together, because it fitted the music and the music fitted it. And he said yes but wouldn’t the initial shot be much b[…]

Douglas Slocombe

[…]know, placing all the people in the hotels and the feeding them, and, you know, getting all the, all the hundreds and hundreds of extras. We also had crowds, so literally hundreds and hundreds and hundreds. So it was enormous, enormous scale, but fascinating pictures to work on. And of course, he's […]

Vernon Sewell

[…] making while I was making 'The Silver Fleet', there were crowd scenes that we had to have and, it was […]

Charles Picken

[…]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 […]

Dicky Leeman

[…] remember a lot about it, except I was in the crowd as one of the sort of peasants in it. […]

Vernon Sewell

[…]drapes - the drapes were made of plaster. And in Mickey's film 'Colonel Blimp', which he was making while I was making 'The Silver Fleet', there were crowd scenes that we had to have and, it was more than three quarters, about eighty per cent of the extras were models, plaster cast models and things[…]

Dicky Leeman

[…] from Lancashire I believe. And he was married to a well-known West End star called Marie Burke. I don't remember a lot about it, except I was in the crowd as one of the sort of peasants in it.Rodney Giesler: One of the first sound films was it?Dicky Leeman: No, there'd been sound for some time on t[…]
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