[…]think it was the last film to be made at MGM. Wonderfully designed by a man now dead, called John Barry, whose first film it was as a full production designer. He was assistant to Elliot Scott who was the principal designer at MGM. It had a wonderful cast - it's difficult to know where to start. Wol[…]
[…]who was acting on his behalf.Freddie Francis: I would say Tom Morahan, was it Tom, there are so many Morahans, I think it was Tom who was a top class designer.Alan Lawson: Then you had Jack who had established himself as a director and yourself as cameraman, no mean record. That was based on a studi[…]
[…]Lawson 0:01 The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTUhistory project. Raymon Morse known professionally as Ramos, actor, set designer, model maker, makeup artist, a man of many talents. Interviewer Alan Lawson, recorded on the 26th of August 1993.Side one.Right here we[…]
[…]Arnold Schwartzman : It's interesting - I don't know if you will recall this, because it's become a mystery to me. Because of my origins as a graphic designer I was particularly interested in what must have been one of your early Hitchcock films where the title design were very abstract, very simple[…]
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[…]you remember it was the first of these record shows, and it had been started by Francis Essex actually with a fellow called Stuart Marshall who was a designer and Clifford Hats later took it on. But they kind of thought up gimmicks for all the different records and people used to come along and mime[…]
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NB The full transcript is available as a PDF file by cicking on the link labelled BEHP 0100T. What follows below is a thematically chaptered extract.Barbara Harris: BECTU Interview Part 1 (1989)The copyright of this recording and transcript is vested in the BECTU History Project. Barbara Harris[…]
Alan Lawson 0:02 The copyright of this recording is vested in the actt history project. Ron Hill technicolour technician, interviewer Alf Cooper, with Alan Lawson recorded on the 26th of January 1989. side, one . Ron when and where were you born?Ron Hill 0:39 Born in Hackney […]
[…]the BIP days, the Ambiphone system.HARRY MILLER: The Ambiphone, yes.ALAN LAWSON: Can you remember that at all?HARRY MILLER: It was er, Atkins was the designer of it and Doug Myers he used to work in the labs at the time I think, he did a lot of work in collaboration with him. It was very limit[…]
