[…] sisters. So therefore there was a very close connection. But to all intents and purposes, while I had two homes to go to my uncle was primarily surrogate local for renters surrogate father. And he I remember took me because he was a great movie buff. And he took me to the local pictures, which I th[…]
[…]AKER: M5Insist upon my dad taking me down to this backlot because you could see the wall that King Kong had been shot with the Kong had been shot the gate or the wall the gate and the wall. And it stood many years until Gone With The Wind.SPEAKER: M1Burned it for the burning of Atlanta. For how trag[…]
[…]ll tell you what, why don't you get some puppets, you know, stick your hand up a jumper and go da-da-da. We could be interested. How about Oliver Postgate? He's making some little mice on a..." You know, [chuckles] crude little things on a - if you ever saw 'em, you know! And he says - and of course[…]
[…] opened the cinema was starred Ted Roy, and it was the world premiere, and Ted Roy was there, and I was in the projection room of the now named Abbey gate cinema. The Night of the world premiere, please turn over starring Ted, Roy and Ted and other members of the cast were there, and I was in the pr[…]
[…]heckers. Very good. It was self blunt. And because in those days too, I mean you tried to look through the film had a direct look through through the gate of God but he had those days with the grey back People used to go under the black velvet and stay under the black velvet to get their eyes accust[…]
[…]at?Cyril Pennington-Richards: It was an importer, a couple of Spanish partners owned this business, it was on Fish Street Hill, right by Billingsgate. And as I walked down the hill from the Monument Station, the very first morning, in my lovely gear, a fish porter who had a pile of fish on his […]
[…]on location that were all in the tones of blacks and greys and whites. We even managed, or the production manager, to find a street near Notting Hill Gate which was going to be demolished and they spray painted the whole street black and we shot… none of the film was shot… almost none of the film wa[…]
[…]spoke to him on these occasions.Dear old Eric Gray. He was the first man that I literally ran into in films at Stoll Studios. Mr. Reynolds was on the gate, and I went in and everybody was breaking through to the Canteen at the top end and Eric was one of them, and I was told to ask for a man called […]
[…]made it very, very mobile. The other camera that we had at that time, which we couldn't use on any sound shooting, was the old Bell and Howell clappergate camera, which was - obviously, everybody knows - a marvellous camera, it was a super camera. But it was so damn noisy you could hardly hear yours[…]
