[…]epperton.BM: We had this enormous unit and I had to find accomodation for them, we were shooting near Dorking, I had all this to do, and the cheapest electrician was getting twice as much as I was getting. The only thing which was rather nice was that I had to organise it all . We only had two hotel[…]
[…]ll that work. Sadie later on - well we went to classes as all my political education was in Glasgow and they were all ordinary railwaymen, engineers, electricians, street cleaners, every type and all philosophers and really intellectual people, not just interested in politics but literature...Q […]
[…] Elstree which had just been added to bit by bit. It was really designed e.g. the stages were opposite the background workshops such as carpentry and electricians which was very labout saving. It was the first place to have mechanical operated doors to the stages and to have a console control for al[…]
[…]d I'll finish the film." [Laughs] So it was as simple as that! So I arrived at Islington, and you can imagine the staff there, the 'chippies' and the electricians and so on, said, "Oh fancy having a continuity girl - no watch," and all this sort of thing. [Chuckling] And in fact one of the grips was[…]
[…]with Michael Powell – the latter shot in Canada; FY talks about working with Michael Powell in Canada.00:21:45 – 00:30:35 Changes in the crews – more electricians and the unions had come in at this point; FY discusses the early years of the union; AL asks about ‘quota quickies’; Thorold Dickinson as[…]
[…]ctors - you could almost stand inside them, these things were enormously heavy - all the lighting equipment was heavy. Every arc light had to have an electrician standing by to keep the arc burning properly and to stop the howling. The cables were heavy but of course there were lots of people availa[…]
[…] that was bad enough for us but for grips and electricians having to go to the next job up north, […]
[…] somebody was going to ask me sooner or later. An electrician would have probably asked me. So I walked in […]
[…] from a guy who said that he had been the electrician at Clifton and when the items went up for […]
[…] from a guy who said that he had been the electrician at Clifton and when the items went up for […]
