[…]uction Runner which meant that I was more involved with the Production Office, with the Production Manager, who was Roy Parkinson, and the Production Designer and all the people on that side of it, which, of course, in the long run was actually beneficial to me because I did get to learn about budge[…]
[…]ver heard of him. Well he was a quite a – he was like a Johnsonian [Boris Johnson] figure of his day, but extremely right-wing, he was quite posh, he designed motor cars, fast motor cars, he designed aeroplanes, his wife kept bees, and he was an15independent MP with the most fascistic opinions: he b[…]
[…]e was...Oh Midge, Midge Mackenzie this was.Yes, yes.Yes, that’s right.Mm, now Verity was anxious to use as many women as possible on that?Eileen Diss designed it.Yes. Of whom, I mean she could walk, she walks on water as far as I’m concerned, you know.Yes.Mm, we’re now in to the ‘70s. The position o[…]
[…]tle man in grey who always had a rosebud in his lapel. I don’t remember the nameI: You were obviously getting on with the job. And what about costume designers, art directors?JK: Ah yes, Elizabeth Haffenden, marevellous designer, I was always furious with myself because I never collected any of her […]
[…]hink, although the British Kinematograph Society was behind it, it was all theory stuff like, a lot of useful stuff mind you. Photographic chemistry, design, electrical engineering and all sorts of things, and we did tinker a bit with 9.5mm and I think we had an old Newman Sinclair. But that was all[…]
[…]as special. He mentioned in the two part Dr. Boss. He also distinguished himself as an athlete. He equally he had success as an actor, and as a stage designer for sets and costumes at the arts Theatre in Cambridge. Certainly Stewart was prominent at the Film Society and in Cambridge, how prominent P[…]
[…]ou couldn't have done that weekly. because it also involved which at that time was quite a lot of trick photography. It had to be worked out with the designer. I only mentioned the Johannesburg thing because by the time I came back, I'd only been away 3 months, Johnny W had gone and Eric Maschwitz h[…]
[…]t as well move the studio! I mean you're talking about moving something weighing what, twenty tons probably altogether, instead of something which is designed to be moved on casters...Alan Lawson: Yes.Cyril Pennington-Richards: ...you can push it with one hand. And the theory was that the […]
