Paul de Burgh (PB)Laboratory, NFTVA, Restoration (Technicolor)BECTU No.585Interviewers: Kieron Webb (KW), Liz Watkin (LW), Charles Fairall (CF)Date 27/05/20092 DV Tapes (Video) Tape 100:00:00 – 00:08:20 PB shows his membership card for BECTU to the camera; KW introduces PB, LZ and CF; PB starte[…]
[…]ll right, here we go. Tim, okay, thank you. I'm Kent Houston. I was born in Wellington, New Zealand in September 1951 I'm a visual effects technician, Darrol Blake 0:16 great. Okay, tell us a bit about the family and whether they had anything to do with the busi[…]
[…]rt of cheap-jack producers, and he didn't pay some of our members their wages. And of course it came up to us, and what we usually did was to ask the laboratory members not to work on his film, he was blacked. Of course you couldn't get away with that now, but it was very effective and we sort of go[…]
[…]te a good team. He had very little help. He was a one man band really was doing the lighting and the operating and everything but he was a very sound technician. He knew exactly what he was doing and if they were very lucky to have him it was an easy shot. No no no it was a roundhouse. Otherwise I w[…]
[…]hiser not the lens, OK? And that was still the case when we did Charge, which meant that I was able, after a lot of, sort of, persuading camera technicians and people, I was able to put the Ross Express lenses behind the Panavision anamorphiser which had the most incredible results because the[…]
[…]lm...L.P. Williams : Oh yes they were all done in the dark rooms. They may even have been loaded at Technicolor or somewhere, I don't know, or in the laboratory. Freddie Young of course would know all about that.Rodney Giesler : It's probably all been recorded anyway.L.P. Williams : Oh yes, I'm sure[…]
[…]; met George Cave who interviewed him for a job; first job was on Wings of the Morning (first British Technicolor film); then trained by the American technicians – became a focus puller, serviced the camera, loaded the camera; early cameramen on Technicolor films were American; worked with Eric Cros[…]
[…]he was famous. And somebody said wouldn't it be fun to to do a we'll do update we will hair and he was engaged. He was a charming man. And he had his laboratory near Mill Hill. And he asked me though, one evening and we went and I was fascinated. Is very erudite, intelligent, non funny man. Lin[…]
[…]rough them and talk about them?Fred Tomlin: Yeah, the reason we got these is because in those days they used to have their own still man with his own laboratory. So they used to do the things on the job and they'd come up and say, "Do you want a photograph of yourself?" and things like that you see.[…]
