[…]ard to deal with when you’re not confident. But nevertheless, he was brilliant, you had to recognise, and he was fun. It was wonderful to work with a director like that. Cecil Beaton did the sets for The Winter’s Tale.[15] So every aspect of it was quite superb, really.JR: And it was a sort of ‘onwa[…]
[…] was he often got people who as they say today, took him to the cleaners. And maybe he had a manager who er was doing that. I do know that one of the directors of the company, because I saw a book about what they called the ‘pirate buses’ of the late twenties and my father used to run a bus service […]
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Alan Lawson 0:00 the copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Pieter de Normanville, documentary film director, interviewer, is John Taylor, recorded on the 28th of February 1991. With interjections from his wife, Sarah Erulkar side one.John Taylor 1:11 &n[…]
Peggy Gick (art director/production designer) b.1911 by admin — last modified Jul 27, 2008 02:13 PM BIOGRAPHY: Peggy Gick trained […]
[…]diting as well around that sort of yeah. Well in those days those people a director very often customarily edited his own film. His or her own film. So tha[…]
[…]at I was in the office with Chris Chapman, who was the property master there you know, getting them to make things that he wanted, and there was this director called Harry Lachman, an American director and Chris was in tears nearly. He said, “He’s fired every charge hand I’ve put on the set”. […]
[…] quite a bit of contact with him. And there's another director - er, um - my mind! [chuckles] Sidney Cole: […]
[…] going around at that time, it was called the assistant director's lament: What shall I do, What shall I do, […]
[…]day of working that don't have to lick the film. scrape it off with a piece of hacksaw blade. And I in years after I remember, was working with other directors. One in particular who was a well known documentary director, who used to lick it first off you both know who he was, what you would d[…]
