[…]merica they all have that and that did away completely with all the shadow off your neck and everything. But I mean the fact that it was a little bit Hammer films was neither here or there, anyway. So the set was there, itwas in her home and so forth, and she’d had loads of fresh flowers put in the […]
[…]ice and very pleasant. We had a lovely location in Devon.1: That’s Len Harris, for the record.Len Harris, the camera operator, who’d done all the old Hammer films. And we did a Hammer film together, we did that one with Leslie...2: Leslie Norman one, yes.June Randall Page 14What was it called?2[…]
[…]or the approval show to the whole of British Transport, including the psychiatrist and the Unions and so on, they were absolutely for it. I wanted to hammer it home by making the end titles a growing mosaic of heads the size of postage stamps, filling the screen one by one, of all the drivers or peo[…]
[…]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[…]
[…];0:06:30 MIKE: Was that stop frame animation you would use there or what? What sort of techniques would you use there? 0:06:35 JOY: What, on the hammer? 0:06:37 MIKE: Yeah. 0:06:38 JOY: On the hammer? No, it wasn’t stop frame, it was shot… not even at high speed, maybe it was shot at […]
[…] couldn’t show it, itwas no use. So somehow you had to indicate that there was more to it than there was in the trailer, you know.Yes. And what about Hammer films, did you do the trailers for them?Oh we did all the Hammer films, oh yes, indeed.They must have been iffy?Michael, Michael Carreras and I[…]
[…]er: So what after that then? O.H.M.S.?E.M. Smedley-Aston: Well it was a question that by the autumn of 1935, the old banks were starting to hammer on the Ostrer's doors, and with six pictures, I imagine that must be several million pound even in those days out in production money. And they[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]t a guy, a camera maintenance man who was at Danziger’s Studios called John Kerley. And he, when it all wrapped up went to Bray Studios for Hammer because they’d recently bought themselves a new camera, [Mitchell] BNC and he was employed as a maintenance engin[…]
[…]nd what a sound recordist was in those days because there were only two ways of doing it – you either went into broadcasting or gramophone records or films and it was practically unknown for anybody to be interested in such a thing.I was always fascinated by sounds and that is what I wanted to do. A[…]
