[…]wood, who gave him names of other art directors he should contact.00:09:30 – 00:16:20 He received a letter from art director Alex Vetchinsky at Denham studios and started working there in 1947 alongside Roy Walker; JB was confident working with classical forms; his first film was No Medals for[…]
[…]onaries singing the song of the revolution, which I've written anyway, and who was the director of that? Hugh, what was he called you to live over in Denham?Unknown Speaker 41:36 Oh, known so well everybody would know who it was. So would know who it was.Speaker 2 41:43 And h[…]
[…]irst film working for art director Ralph Brinton; 1949, worked as assistant art director on Captain Horatio Hornblower, one of the last films made at Denham, in charge of designing Hornblower’s boat and constructing it in the south of France; Hornblower started his career as a ship expert, designing[…]
[…]put in to their own specifications; CFS were unique until Universal came a long much later; they handled a lot of 16mm neg made from a 35mm original; Denham went into 16mm but Technicolor didn’t for many years; CFS processed all of Technicolor’s 16mm material until the early-80s; when Technicolor wa[…]
[…]o I wrote back and I said, "I can't make it at the moment because I want to find out where I'm going to live there, and take my family." So I went to Denham, which is Cookham, isn't it, and I saw Pinewood and all them around there, and I went in an estate agent's shop - Cor, you couldn't touch the p[…]