[…]day’s work and have it all wrapped up and ready for transmission like that. So you could be a bit more painstaking about the process rather than just hammering through something live on air, certainly towards the end of live transmissions every so often you’d find that the transmission would have be[…]
[…]hanged which side of the roll so that’s definitely a stabilisation thing in the colour process. I’ve also seen film where it had rolls of outtakes, a Hammer film actually, the… before wet-gate printing came in they would lacquer films, pretty much all films were lacquered and what would happen is, i[…]
[…]ess is somewhat inherent in camera negative of the time and the lenses, the Cinema… well actually I forget what the actual credit on the film is. The Hammer ones were normal not CinemaScope but Dyaliscope or HorrorScope, or…PF: HammerScopeKW: Yeah. In other words, not as good quality lenses as the p[…]
[…]u know.PF: Another film you worked on in the 70s was Vampira, also known as Old Dracula, working with David Niven. Obviously, a parody of some of the Hammer films from that time. How did you approach that film? Did you have any references to some of the older horror films?EH: No, I didn’t actually. […]
[…]ave IB prints”, not because they prefer IB prints, but purely because they have a deal. You would go to Technicolor and say, “We’re going to make six Hammer productions and we’ll put them all with you. What’s the rate going to be? We will be shooting a hundred thousand on each, so there will be five[…]
[…]hink they went to Sardi’s. But I didn’t, I went off, being very strong-willed Irish-Scotsman, I went off down the Village [Greenwich Village] and got hammered – and got back I suppose about four in the morning to these messages in my hotel, saying ‘Have you seen Walter Kerr?’ [Theatre critic] Turned[…]
[…]The reason she knew him was obviously she’d wanted odd bits of engineering stuff because he ran this special effects company, and he did film, mainly Hammer films at that stage, that sort of stuff and I got a holiday job in his studio, which was, putting it mildly, fascinating. They were doing two f[…]
[…]song as a debit, no music gone, and move. MANKIEWICZ had written it. Monty Norman was a friend to this day. They're sitting in the stalls and I start hammering these bongos because I couldn't really play I nearly knocked him onto the stage singing the song, so Bongo an awful silence when I finished […]
[…]ee and watch. But wouldn't tell him whenUnknown Speaker 12:04 it was probably john, what could haveUnknown Speaker 12:10 been hammered at that time? Of course, I mean, even daddy wouldn't know perhaps it was. But I remember him talking to my mother and saying, oh, he's offere[…]
[…]he Harwich flea pit. Yeah. The story was that when people came through the front of the cinnabar, bought their ticket, the manager gave them a little hammer to be returned. After decimating the flea brigade and Speaker 1 19:46 then going back to the sprays at the usherette[…]
