[…]aying there were three films that you really...Well, they’re the three that were successful. The other two were totally different. Onewas the film on design of stamps, called Picture to Post, which I got the BAFTA for, and again, Arthur was my cameraman – no, he wasn’t – sorry, it was[…]
[…]ly I'll build one. And that's what we did. I got some reclaimed land from the government. They gave me this land for free. And we built a studio John design. Absolutely. Yeah sure did. Well why was down there 10 months. We had a rank crew in those days if you remember said they all the black people […]
[…]f departments and that head of department may not have had anything to do with that production.All MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc) costumes and designs by the same one, Cedric GibbonsThat’s right but he wasn’t on the film at all and contractually I suppose and it really went that way in Englan[…]
[…]ife,’ and the next morning he’d come out with a page and a half of script and we’d film it, and it meant enormosly complicated make-up, wardrobe, set design, and Peter Hall lighting it, it was beautifully lit, and the whole thing was done in less than three weeks, and it would not be conceived as be[…]
[…]!" You see, so we sat down and we wrote about a two-page script of something, and it was called 'Sweeping Partners', I remember very well. And it was designed for Naughton and Gold and one of them was going to be a professional Santa Claus and the other was a chimney sweep and they got lost in the c[…]
[…]his more or less live, live a performance or in tiny little bits. No, there weren't any tiny little bits.RA: No there weren't any tiny little bits. I designed the score with one eye on the concert hall so to say. There are sections which start and finish as pieces. In fact I've made two suites out o[…]
[…] and another little small one etc. Oh, you know, there was a lot of work all the while, things were growing and building and you had to sit and design and research and, you know, plan for and cost and so on. It was all very lovely, interesting, exciting work. Q &nbs[…]
