[…]hadto be rushed back because it had to be processed. We had a processing plant in our building,our own processing plant. We started off by using Kays Laboratory but after a while we formedour own laboratory and when we moved into Television House in Wirrall Street, in about 1960,our own lab was in t[…]
[…]member now in broad because seeing all these men coming in with briefcases and just spending their time on the telephone, and we're mutterings in the laboratory. Do you know what's going to happen? You've been given the push, though. people who'd been there for 30 years more suddenlywere absolutely […]
[…]producer? Director?Norman Fisher: Director. It was all a very loose sort of organisation really and everybody was doing everything and apart from the technical staff everybody was doing their own thing more or less.Roy Fowler: Well the people who stand out in your memory most clearly, had Humphrey J[…]
[…] done at Amesbury. But we had a retired General as Technical Adviser called Larkin. And he apparently had read the […]
[…] really and everybody was doing everything and apart from the technical staff everybody was doing their own thing more or […]
[…]us papering up space for a paper in the roll of film beginning of the sequence you want in another paper at the end . And so that when he goes in the laboratory they know which bit you copy and print. That's the mechanics of it.BG What was Philip Jenkinson like?CY Like I didn't deal with him too oft[…]
[…]should be but filmmaker bothered, in other in other words, according to him about his ability ... Jonathan Balcon 29:45 No technical ability. Roy Fowler 29:46 Well that he didn't actually make films somehow he arranged for films to be made.[…]
[…] night exteriors, I can remember that. But the scene with the Chinese thing on the skyline, that was done at Amesbury. But we had a retired General asTechnical Adviser called Larkin. And he apparently had read the script earlier on, several things he didn't like. So he went to see Mickey Balcon I th[…]
