[…]many tussles with the union. It was when I was doing 'The Truth about Women', there was nobody there who was good enough for the sets at that moment, designers, so I put forward Roland Whiteside, he was excellent if he was given the chance. So I said, "Would you give this man a ticket?" Because he s[…]
[…] on the studio or the size or the size of the set, depending on the studio or if you were on location or whatever, your costume, you had your costume designer and your wardrobe mistress, your make-up and that. And sometimes I think even more so becauseyou, because you’re concentrating on such a smal[…]
[…]the laboratories of providing equipment to take care of it. Even to decontamination centres, a lot of solutions and chemicals which will be which are designed to not cure but to prevent providing, but apart from the management supplying this equipment, that everybody will cooperate and use it, but i[…]
[…]do was, it wasn't easy to get back to England, there was nothing - no boats were running, so we went back to New York. My first wife, who was a dress designer, got a job and I did a number of jobs, photography and child photography. And then in 1941 through friends and people I knew I was given a jo[…]
[…]the laboratories of providing equipment to take care of it. Even to decontamination centres, a lot of solutions and chemicals which will be which are designed to not cure but to prevent providing, but apart from the management supplying this equipment, that everybody will cooperate and use it, but i[…]
[…] family that's all.Roy Fowler: There's a story that he was the wrong Gordon Craig in terms of the knighthood, that it was intended for the theatrical designer, but because of his Tory party affiliations there was confusion and he was knighted. Is that something you can bear out?Norman Fisher: No I c[…]
[…]nit I do not know.Speaker 1 1:12 He was what they call a unit adjuster. Whatever that was,Roy Fowler 1:15 it's an interesting designation.Speaker 1 1:17 We work for London, general that there were general, the general, omnibus company was called in those days, IRo[…]
[…]tics, there was all but done with sets the GPO Film Unit had before it moved to Pinewood to Denham contracted Edward Carrick who was professional set designer. And he devised a sensational shot of a bomb actually exploded on Germany, which was taken by an audience's documentaryInterviewer 0:50[…]
[…]nfortunate – the pictures he has been going to do they have gone down one after the other.I So there was no, as the Americans have nowadays, no sound designer? PH No, no. I don’t know what that is. Do you?I A pain in the neck to the recordist I should think. What was your surprise when you got the n[…]
