[…]I did and he got in touch with Roy Oxley2 who had been a fellow art director, now at this time, which by now was 1951 he was at the BBC. Now the head of design there at that time was Peter Bax3 and they, now what happened, oh I think it was the usual thing, they said apply, and fill in the[…]
[…]e been involved in lots of CinemaScope, or anamorphic, whatever it you like to call it. People say were going to do anamorphic and that's it, and go ahead and shoot it 2.35 or whatever. But this film was really planned and it was really planned because neither Jack and nor I wanted to do it anamorph[…]
[…] point of view?Alan Lawson : From Klang to.... [RCA]Peter Birch : None at all. No I mean you still had the sound to get on your microphone as in your headphones. The fact the camera was slightly different, density versus area.Alan Lawson : Wasn't Klang Film a bastard, going there, rather like BA?Pet[…]
[…]o BIP and in charge there was the Supervising Art Director, Clarence Elder who liked my work and he said "I will give you a job in a years' time. Go ahead and do some designs for films and so forth, whatever I wanted to do" So I went back within the day, after my first appointment. Again that year I[…]
[…]o much work going around and there were fewer people available to do it. Sound recording was Harold King and he went on to great things.BA: He became head of Sound at ABPC Studios.BE: And the art director was Holmes Paul. He was an older sort of art director, very very nice man. One of the few then […]
[…] that the film "Evergreen", when he hit Saville on the head with a mike, and Saville said, "you do that […]
[…]stablishment, as it was called in those days, on the sixth floor. Michael kinchin Smith, who was in the Army during the war, and I can't remember the head of the department, had been a bomber pilot during the war, and we were working with those sort of people. And what was Nick Gilbey &nbs[…]
[…]fter the Govan Election there was an STV reception at the Liberal Democrat Conference in the Corran Halls in Oban. David Scott who was, at that time, Head of News and Current Affairs of STV said, "I would like you to come and work for STV in the run up to the next election." Didn't hear anything fro[…]
