[…]ad time and the crewing arrangements were a bigger, broad brush. Being an Assistant Dubbing Mixer, what, an Assistant Dubbing Mixer basically was the head of Transfer, Sound Transfer. What would happen would be, we'd film an interview, a sequence, a programme, on film and obviously with sound as wel[…]
[…]What was the ethos of the department?Speaker 1 1:42 Well, you cannot understand pebble mill without understanding David Rose, who was the head of English regents drama, David had been a very experienced producer for the BBC. And most notably, he's known for Zed cars, which I think were 5[…]
[…]ith Bill Cotton Junior, as he was then, we were the two youngest producers in the BBC. Because he was a song plugger before he became Assistant Head of Light Entertainment.DARROL BLAKE: What was your first production?NEVILLE WORTMAN: My first production was a thing called “Like Jaz[…]
[…]promoted itself on film right from the very beginning. The Palestinian Arabs only ever really appeared as strange figures wearing tea-towels on their heads, backward, primitive and obstructive, violent, chaotic, incapable of their own government: that was the image that came out of the film records,[…]
[…]e guysthat lived in these boathouses. And they would build a fire, I found out of course, because they took me there to one of them, pushed me along ahead of them7Jan Zilliacus Tape 1 Side A[Laughter] practically a block of ice myself in that keen wind, it was something like sixteen below zero I sup[…]
[…] equipment that was in the cutting room in those days? Yes, itJohn Shirley 13:07 was the old Spyglass style movie. He always had a silent head alongside it for matching. No sight, just a silent head just a slice. Sorry. And the synchronizers were crummy. Lord is where they didn't know wh[…]
[…]at you hadn't overspent. Before any film at Ealing started there was a meeting called in the restaurant there, which had a big round table, and every head of every department had to go there with your budget made out and presented and had to justify it. And it was incredible, you'd go there and you'[…]
[…]et. My navigator told me that we were saved at 3000 feet. I pull one of the crew out with a broken spine and the other four were dead. I actually had headlines on the local paper for him was a hero which was a bit sort of pointless because that he was the hero so vaguely tried to save myself that at[…]
[…]an over the banisters and look down here, I said "But, Basil we could do the flight going up but doing the banisters looking down." I said, "Well his head will be in the gantry." "Oh, I see . Perhaps you're right" You both have known him. Of course you have. I remember once sitting in a cafe at abou[…]
[…]e been, yes, there must have been, it must have been obvious. But I think it was on the synchroniser, yes, yes, yes, yes. I don't think the movie overhead had a sound. HereUnknown Speaker 11:43 it was, I wouldn't be dead sure the synchronizer probably was a law Lee, yes, probably a lawly[…]
