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[…]d Living Planet, we even moved onto electronic. I'm not too keen on video cameras for a number of reasons, one of which is you can't mend them with a hammer. But in Trials of Life we wanted to do a lot of low light stuff and wanted to get flashing fireflies and so on. And that was even beyond the se[…]

[…]l is absolute professional. Why he fell out with the BBC over the film rights I don't know. The films of the Quatermass and the Creature were made by Hammer Company which is a very lousy company. And the financial department told Nigel Kneale the film rights belong to the BBC because you were under […]

[…] an up and downer with him on the IB shop floor and it got to the political side of trade union life and this, that and the other and we were arguing hammer and tongs and suddenly he suddenly stopped andsaid ‘we’ll wait, go back and read the Marx and Engels more you’ve got it wrong’. [Laughter] I sa[…]

[…]of art, it's no good saying I have it in me, I'm a great sculptor, I have something burning inside me, I can do it. Unless you know how to handle the hammer and chisle you can't be. Equally you have to serve an apprenticeship in film. You have to learn all the rules in order to know how to break the[…]

[…] could find in those days was these long bars of Primrose soap.  And I remember sitting up on the spot rail with a bar of Primrose soap and this hammer and getting as near the mic as I could and this was doing the mining all the time.  Another thing was I built these things like in theatre[…]

[…]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[…]