[…]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[…]
Side 1 Ralph Bond 0:00 This is a tape recording with three ACTT members who have spent all or most of their working life in film laboratories. We have Bert Craik, Sam Williams, and Alf Cooper. And we're going to discuss the many, many changes that have taken place both in technical […]
[…]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[…]
Side 1Ralph Bond 0:00 This is a tape recording with three ACTT members who have spent all or most of their working life in film laboratories. We have Bert Craik, Sam Williams, and Alf Cooper. And we're going to discuss the many, many changes that have taken place both in technical condit[…]
[…] 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[…]
Roy Fowler 0:08 Okay, the copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. We're at Gleblands on the third of August 1989 and the interview is with Henry T Seward, who is resident here, Henry, let's start at the beginning. When and where were you born?Henry Seward […]
[…]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[…]
