[…]est Lindgren, Curator of the NFA – MW: That’s the National Film Archive. RS: That’s the National Film Archive.- and my ultimate bosses, the Director and Deputy Director at the IWM. So we ended up going it alone. We developed a computer system called Apparat, which ran on what is known in t[…]
[…]grammes to work on. And then my first film as full Assistant when I was made up was a film called “Public School” and the Editor was Paul Carter, the Director was Jonathan Gili and Paul won the BAFTA Craft Award for “Public School” and was was kind enough to share his prize with me. So that was that[…]
[…] 1' and they would know which order it was coming up, so they could preview it. Because you were wanting to take it as soon as it was up, because the director wanted that particular picture up. But the directors then of course knew nothing about the technical side. People like George More O'Ferrall,[…]
[…]people available to do it. Sound recording was Harold King and he went on to great things.BA: He became head of Sound at ABPC Studios.BE: And the art director was Holmes Paul. He was an older sort of art director, very very nice man. One of the few then who then had a beard and so he was rather dist[…]
[…]en can't remember, Oh, this week in 1962. I moved on to this week. And I was on that for two years auto 62 and 63. And there were two film units, two directors and two pas who alternated. So once a fortnight I went abroad filming for two years. And on the other week, I did the life show in London fo[…]
[…]t I was always struck by how unflappable they were in the gallery in those days because it was two minutes to air and the lights are flashing and the director is running through the running order and giving [unintelligible] and checking “Has any film arrived yet?” and you’re replying “No, […]
[…] chemicals, how to do chemical analysis, all this kind of stuff is what I was involved in. Then in ‘74 my boss Paul Read left Kodak to become the lab director at Kays, Kays laboratories in Highbury, and six months later he said “I’d like you to come and join me as a technical manager. I need that so[…]
