[…] 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[…]
[…]re, just the location. We were in India a 10ng time, it took a long time to get there. Osmond Borradaile was the cameraman. Geoffrery Boothby was the director. That was the whole unit. We didn't take sound or any actors. We went there to shoot all the battle scenes. They were big scale and to do a 1[…]
Cyril Pennington-Richards (cameraman and director) 17/12/1911 - 2/1/2005by admin — last modified Aug 12, 2008 12:43 PMBECTU History Project - Interview No. 122[Copyright BECTU] Transcription Date: 2003-08-13Interview Date: 1990-01-09Interviewer: Alan Lawson and Colin Moffat Inter[…]
[…] a fellow named - I think he's been an assistant director, but he was assistant studio manager, Frank Covern or […]
[…]using short ends when in fact you you weren't it always seemed like that to them because it was the days of when you took many many takes to get this director's perfection and when we finished the loading slammed the sides of the camera back and everything else. I took off the to unload finished tak[…]
[…]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, […]
[…]use they were building we went to Stoll's Studio at Cricklewood and we made a film there. Again I can't remember the title, but Sinclair Hill was the director and he also made one at Shepherd's Bush later on with a girl named Sari Maritza which was called Greek Street.John Taylor: What about the oth[…]
[…]ce behind the manufacture of any film emulsion was immense, and this is something I again carried through to when I was working with the DoPs and the directors, because you’d understand the science of layering emulsion upon emulsion on a continuous running operation, was precise, absolutely precise,[…]
[…]ffice, and my mother had started work at an engineering factory, which was in Stoke Poges which was very close, and within a year she had been made a director of the company, and so it was the obvious place for them to live, so- DB: Why was she made a director of the firm? PB-C: Because my[…]
[…]s that we started it off on the floor, and then it was going for about two weeks but they got into trouble with time and everything, because we had a director who had an idea that he wanted to shoot it in sequence. Instead of shooting everything in one set-up and then editing it later, [chuckles] he[…]
