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[…]t following a collision between a plane and helicopter; Jack Cardiff worked with FY as a focus puller before moving on to Technicolor; Tubby England, John Wilcox, Ernest Steward, Peter Newbrook, Angela Martelli worked with FY in the army; filming in the silent days wasn’t very easy.00:07:20 – 00:20:[…]
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[…]I: Right! Totally informal. Relaxed. Adam Fullarton, when did you start with STV? R: I think I started in 1962. I: Right. This interviewer, John Frame, and, first of all, Adam, before you came to STV, what was your, kind of, background before then? R: Well, I was in the Merchant Navy […]
[…]at’s what they ended up doing, so there are shot scenes intercut with the archive footage but the film was made in black and white, the cameraman was John Alcott, who was Stanley Kubrick’s cameraman and he did lot of work to make sure that the camera lenses and film stock he was using were appropria[…]
[…]ul night to the Café De Paris when that was bombed. There were a lot of casualties – I think about 60 people were killed – including Ken ‘Snake Hips’ Johnson, who was the band leader, and quite a few of his band. It was the most horrendous experience, but these things rather fade in one’s memory.RL:[…]
NB This is a resume only.John Box (JB)Production DesignerBECTU No.463Interviewer: Rodney Gielsler (RG)Date 09/12/19993 Tapes Side 100:00:00 – 00:09:30 Introductions; born 1920 in England but moved to Ceylon; father couldn’t get a decent job after WWI so he worked in a number of remote areas of […]
