[…] my diploma, the art school didn't give degrees in those days so I had a diploma, from Central School and I wrote around, I wrote to lots of film art directors, some were very kind and wrote back. And one of them, my father oddly enough had known during the war, he worked in Ambulances during the Bl[…]
[…]mediately at the outbreak of warsGordon Hales 32:24 yes I put the Lion has wings in my letter because i had an idea that there were three directors who each did a separate sequence and i may or may not be wrong he did one right not but this was all very new to me then and i used to meet […]
[…]ean, my exact contemporaries. In my promotion, there was Claude Miller, who's who's done reasonably well. Not many others seem to have become feature directors though, of that particular motion. But as long as like, Oh, no, was the one after me and he he's done well,Rodney Giesler 5:30 &[…]
[…]and projected the rushes at the end of the day; FY started working for Gaumont in 1917 and left ten years later, by which time he earned £5 a week; a director invited FY to shoot his next film; FY gave his notice to Colonel Bromhead the head of the studio at Gaumont.00:10:00 – 00:17:05 His first fil[…]
[…]ilm printer and my first job was to print the rushes for Ernie Palmer, the American cameraman -they were nearly all Americans, there were two Americandirectors, American cameraman, Continental cameraman, all that sort of thing - and I had to print the rushes. And one of the first jobs I did was to p[…]
[…] who afterwards became an agent and Alex Bryce, a Scotch director. I was still in my digs but we used […]
[…] afterwards they'd taken it away. Well, in those days the director cut his picture. He always had a negative cutter […]
[…]en City.Back in the camera, back in the camera years I came back as a clapper boy.Otto HellerWe did Queen of Spades with Thorold Dickinson he was the director he was writing over a number of films, there was Guilt is my Shadow. And For them that Trespass and there was a couple of other films being m[…]
