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Ken Adam (KA)Art Director, Production DesignerBECTU No.416Interviewer: Rodney Giesler (RG)Date 12/03/1997 & 29/07/19973 Tapes 12/03/1997Side 100:00:00 – 00:29:30 Introductions; born 1921 in Berlin; upper middle class family, German-Jewish; his father had a sports store in Berlin and used to[…]
[…]. i In order to carry this out, David had seen the first television work in an afternoon after the war, he'd been watching a bear character. And as a designer, he knew what what could be done apart from from that. So the object costs to save space to make do everything you could in one studio, rathe[…]
[…]e tracked down, in his report on Second World War vehicles, American Army trucks and so on. It, the report that he puts through to ... the production designer probably as to what can be amassed for the main long shot, it’s the pro, it’s the line producer who wants to know all that stuff.So it would […]
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[…]ith aluminium, see? So he made special... whatsit. They he made what they called the 'SS-Car', see? And that was a nice design, because he was a good designer. So as I say, I didn't see him then until after the war. So he sent for me after the war. I had my studio going and I was well known in the t[…]
Charles Picken - My Cinema LifeCHAPTER ONE - MY FORMATIVE YEARSFrom my earliest childhood the magic of the Cinema had been firmly entrenched in my life. In those days television had not yet begun its inexorable march into the living rooms of the nation and the weekly visit, or in my fort[…]