[…]n agricultural world in central Lanarkshire with nobody in the immediate family that would point me in any direction, somehow or other I got it in my head that I should be a journalist. I: OK. So, farming was never the option? R: No. I loved horses, I hated cows and sheep! And that was jus[…]
[…]o I did the footsteps.Unknown Speaker 3:42 And that was cold. It wasn't Alexander cold. SoSpeaker 2 3:45 Alexander Calder was head of London films. We also did a film called The wooden horse. And that was I was a second assistant editor on that film and Lord Braeburn came on […]
[…]an Simmons.RENÉE GLYNNE: [Laughter] Yes, she was in it. I didn’t know that she wasdoubling for her or ... (TIME 18.01)DARROL BLAKE: Back of head or something? I don’t know.RENÉE GLYNNE: Back of head, yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s a myth or a truth but I didn’t know that. I just knew tha[…]
[…]u didn't - actually, in fact, I used to get told off for looking through the camera to try and get the depth of field. And I know it sounds a bit big headed but I knew the Kelly calculator for depth of field off by heart. In the early days of my focus pulling I could tell wh[…]
[…]dited by Duggie Myers, and Adam Duggie did the musical numbers Adam cut most of the dialogue scenes, and I was affected the system usually covered in head to foot with numbering it and rushing around finding it all. absolutely fascinating. And one sweet story I must mentioned about Val who, with a v[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] quite clearly, I can remember my father opening the window in the bedroom, in which they slept and I as a baby with the role of a Zeppelin going overhead, that must mean I was no more than two years old at the time, your birth you was 1916, right? Which may or may not be surprising that a child sho[…]
[…]ose days there wasn't any dubbing. All sound was recorded direct. So the sea had to be recorded at the same time as the dialogue. I had a kind of drumhead and pounds and pounds of lead shoe and I stood at the side of the set enthusiastically moving this drum backwards and forwards to produce the sou[…]
[…] said what a marvellous notice it was and the studio head said I should bloody well hope so. It cost […]
