[…]everything is out of sync. The boom operator wears headphones, he should know if it is out of sync. I thought, Good Lord if this man is the technical director we are really in trouble.On the next day we went to the studio. We were met by Gregory Ratoff and introduced to everyone. He said, these two […]
GUIDO COENCopyright is invested in ACTT History Project.Guido Coen, producer and director of Twickenham Film Studios - interviewer Sid Cole .SIDE 1, TAPE 1SC: We always ask about origins, where were you born.GC : I was born in Milan, in 1915 which makes me 73, I don't feel it but its there.SC : And […]
[…]for quite a few years and then I gradually graduated back into into picture editing. Went to Merton park, to get a break, really, and I worked with a director called Phil Ressler on a series called chemistry for six forms. Work with the orals. Remember Professor Pryor, who told me that, that he had […]
[…]w, so, I mean, I guess there were times when we ran for an hour and a half. Member Milosz. Foreman, I think, I think but anyway, then I'm in the film directors sitting in the studio talking. And we've been on the air 11 o'clock and we came off the air at half past 12 Other times, but go on at 10 to […]
[…]n nature study subjects, which went into the cinemas. And she was very well known, well, quite famous, really, in that field. Then, of the other directors there, there were a number of people who, who became quite world figures, really. One was Stanley Hawes, who went with Grierson to Canada, a[…]
[…]d so forth. But say you, say you finished at five thirty, I mean if you've been able to keep up during the day, I mean it's, again, it depends on the director, I mean you might do seven or eight shots a day you might do twenty, and it depends how you have been able to keep up as to how many hours yo[…]
[…]ght side of the industry. I sort of halved my salary, becoming an assistant, you know, but it was well worthwhile.What kind of an assistant?Assistant director. And that day and age, now out of interest, in that day and age of coursewe were fighting for an apprenticeship scheme in the industry becaus[…]
[…] films. The first film was being directed by Adrian Brunel, I remember that, Ivor Novello was the lead and then. I fell into the hands of an American director called T. Hayes Hunter. He turned out to be a very nice man but he was very severe on me to begin with. Eventually Balcon and Gainsborough Pi[…]
[…] fairly well known in Poland. He was a poet, film director and a writer and he organised and opened the […]
[…]iate family?NEVILLE WORTMAN: My immediate family – I’ve got twins. A boy and a girl, Mathew and Rosalind. Mathew is a drama feature director and he is just about to start his first feature film which has just been financed which is going to be shot in Brazil and I am a sort of exec[…]
