[…] the only non, non German, I think they are so. So my all the actors were German. Strip was in German. My entire crew were German, my Gaffer, all the electricians, my camera, my camera systems were all German. And in fact, I never spoke a word of English when I was there. Fortunately, my at school, […]
[…]have 1,350 ACTT members but we had an agreement covering 1.350 people at one time in the records of ACTT.That‟s right.It covered draughtsmen, nurses, electricians, carpenters.Engineers?5Engineers, canteen workers, everybody that was anybody working for Technicolor up to any level other than the top […]
[…]were perhaps waiting for one of the stars or directors who wouldn’t turn up till about 6 o’clock in the evening. Something had to be done to save the electricians from having a really a very very difficult time and working extremely long hours.PHOTOCOPY OF TRANSCRIPT PAGE 23SIDE 3, TAPE 2BE: I suppo[…]
[…]. You can't do it with Audrey Hepburn. You have to shoot everything in backlight, so you have to have brutes which means you have to have generators, electricians and they want a meal break and hot lunches. It all falls apart and that's how it ended up. We had a huge unit and couldn't do the journey[…]
[…]heplates got hot and it blew up and it killed Jock Dymcre who was tbe chiefelectrician at Denham and it injured 4 or 5 electricians, and I was on that set a few minutes after it happened and[…]
[…] before the break.Roy Fowler: Harry Miller, the dubbing editor, I was telling you about how he said if the picture bulb blew on a movieola the studio electrician had to come and replace it whereas if the bulb in the exciter lamp for the sound system in the movieola blew you had to have a sound maint[…]
[…] black actors to be here!” [laughs]. I was saying “Ssh, quiet.” But they were all laughing behind the desk. We insisted that all our units, the black electricians and the props, the heavy gang, wherever we were filming they had to come in with us and in doing so [emphatically] we did an enormous amo[…]
[…]s which was basically a good idea because the unions, it was all unions - ACTT [Association of Cinematograph Television and Allied Technicians], ETU [Electricians Trade Union], NATKKE [National Association of Theatrical Television and Kine Employees] - all there, they could ask questions and you wer[…]
[…]Did Bob Allen work for you? Bob Allen, sound recordist?I don’t remember, no. No, we never had sound. Oh, we might have on a picture. We had electricians of course always because they had to be able to cope with the undergroundKitty Marshall Page 52special lights, underground. But ther[…]
[…]am stuff on the topUnknown Speaker 14:12 Swiss bundle?Unknown Speaker 14:15 So I would go, then stand in a queue with all the electricians and take my chanceUnknown Speaker 14:21 to get this stuff. And then when I got back to me, he said, No, I didn't mean one of […]
