[…]We did these Summer Serenades and then I did a series with the show band, Cyril Stapleton's Show Band called The Show Band Show which was designed by Dick Levin. And he'd done it in such a way that on the music stand you could light up show band show and with the camera pulled back on its widest len[…]
[…]e was a friend of my mother. My mother, at that time was a friend of the young actor who died during the war one working on next of kin, a man called Dickie Norris. And in those days, if I remember right, I think even Freddie Young was working somewhere out there at one stage, but they were making, […]
[…]mix tracks to get an effect they were just laid in and they went down and they didn’t really understand what they were, what they were for. And Dick Smith, you’ve heard of Dick Smith, a very good mixer and he said “Why don’t you go in to do the tracks on this picture, they are a horrible mess”[…]
[…]srael. So he knew what reality looked like and he could recreate it. And on Culloden. He was given a very experienced very good BBC camera man called Dick Bush and Dick Bush was interviewed later and said he was given this fresh faced young director to work with. Peter was only about 27 And he looke[…]
[…]and’ which didn’t Harrisons [ph A 23:48] produce?Oh yes, I remember, yes.A young man called Dennis Potter.Yes.Was the presenter.Yes.With a man called Dick Taverne, who went on to be…Oh, an MP, yes, yes.And there were sort of guest young men, directors, from Drama Department?Yes, that’s right, yes.To[…]
[…]rked consistently. So actually I wasn’t doing badly for the time.Light entertainment was a shambles these people had no talent whatsoever, Dickie Afton, Walton Anderson who was hunting one of the chorus girls and Henry Caldwell they are the three I remember.I did a show, Henry had a serie[…]
[…]ilm. And David was the camera man. It was his first sort of film I've ever read. I think because of that, and the different styles of lighting, Dick Lester pinched him for the Knack with came very soon afterwards. Sarah wanted her money up front, and she wouldn't take a profit participat[…]
[…]re 10 months. We had a rank crew in those days if you remember said they all the black people work were 52 weeks a year employees. We had no. We just Dick had to accept the crew that was sent to us which is always a bit tricky. They were very very suspicious of me because I was a freelance productio[…]
[…]was owned by a man called Alex Sterling, who was a crook, even on tape recorder, he was a crook. And but the photographers there were extremely good, Dick Dormer, Henry Clark, I mean, the best. And they all dissolved away one by one as they were cheated. And I did too. And opened a little studio in […]
