[…]d everything else, anyway, God says to the Devil, ‘you’ve got to find a punishment for humankind, they’re out of hand.’ So the Devil goes down to his laboratory, which is like Heath Robinson, and auditions the most beautiful women in the world, and finally spends the night with Salome, and gives bir[…]
Len Lawrence Laboratories, Technician, Editor (Stoll, Humphries, Technicolor)BECTU No.81Interviewers Alf Cooper (AC) & Alan Lawson (AL)Date: 12/04/1989 Side 100:00:00 – 00:03:58 Introduction; early life; schooling; 11 plus exams; first job in a fruit shop; working in an ironmongers.00:[…]
[…]o go to MGM Studios at Borehamwood and they offered me a job there as an assistant dubbing mixer. Well MGM proved to be fairly disastrous for British technicians because very little happened. MGM Studios started with a couple of cheap pictures Edward Dryhurst produced one called The Dream of Olwyn –[…]
[…] AC t t History Project. Jim Gorrie, technicolour technician interview, Alf Cooper recorded on the 28th of November 1988. side one project Jim Gorrie laboratory technician from technicolour interview, l. Cooper, recorded on the 28th of November 88. Thing anything that's anything that's interesting R[…]
[…]ey hung it up, on nails, and had great seven-league boots, always.Sidney Cole: That's because they did - in those days - the studio had it's own laboratory and did it's own processing.Tilly Day: It did it's own, yes, had it's own, yes.Sidney Cole: Did you go to see rushes?Tilly Day:&n[…]
[…] us, and what we usually did was to ask the laboratory members not to work on his film, he was […]
[…] - in those days - the studio had it's own laboratory and did it's own processing. Tilly Day: It did […]
[…]hings so I used to print the photos, develop and print the photographs that the photographers would take so I saw an advert for a Stills Photographic Technician that sounded great in Scottish Television and this was, I stayed there for a couple of years and then I applied for the job with Scottish T[…]
Interviewed by Andrew Dawson, University of Greenwich, 14 February 2011Okay Roy first of all could you give me your date of birth please?Fifteenth of August 1939. Almost the day that war broke out.Ah. And if you could start really right at the beginning. Family background, parents, siblings, where w[…]
[…]working at the BBC in the ‘60s and ‘70s, but when I got to do bigger dramas the feeling was clearly to try and compete. The side effect as one of the technicians at that time, as a cameraman was exemplified on Dancin’ thru the Dark, where there were several, there was Palace Pictures, there was BBC,[…]
