[…] rushed home. I didn't live that far away from Alexandre palace. And quickly made up models photograph them yesterday Fashion Film, even a non single lens reflex cameras, I had to sort out the parallax of it to get them so we actually lined up and everything. I did these about 20 or so pictures of w[…]
[…]atre critic.00:10:52He became editor of a program called ‘Temple’ - so - I was working for ‘Bookman’ and ‘Temple’ - which was really excellent education because you got to meet - everybody in the arts - you could sit there and say who would we talk to this week? And they would come[…]
[…]r than write to Lean whom I thought must be a very busy man directing, I thought I'll talk to the producer who doesn't go out of the office, and has plenty of time! So I wrote to Ronnie Neame instead, I said I'm keen on getting into films and can I visit Pinewood? He wrote back and said yes, so I ma[…]
[…]nday to repurposes by Wednesday, I was also expected to read the entire canon of Greek and Latin literature within one year, which if you look at the length of certain things, like Plato's Republic, is quite subtle. And I realised, though I was pretty good grammar. So far, I never really had a feel.[…]
[…]son : Yes I did, very much so because I was brought up in a very remote part of South Wales, by my Aunt, because my Mother died. And there we had a silent film show every week in the village hall, so I saw a great number of silent films, we used to go every week. And it was extraordinary because, on[…]
[…] wanted to learn you see. And Bert Ford would never tell you anything, in fact if he used a second unit cameraman, he would cover the aperture on the lens and if they went up and said, "What are you shooting at Bert?" he'd say, "The usual!" He would never tell them! And so I mean you couldn't learn […]
[…]ucation with a view of teaching in England. But I found to my horror, that I not only couldn't teach, but hated teaching, I didn't, didn't have any talent for it at all, as classroom teaching, so I looked around for something else that would use my zoology and would give me a satisfying life. And I […]
[…] organised until then.But right from the word go we got you active didn’t we and do you remember...?And great antagonism from the boss at... Not Mr Allen.No.I mean he was always very nice to me, but Pulley God.Allen then was the Company Accountant wasn’t he at that time?Mm, he was the Company Secret[…]
[…]d you know Freddie Young?PS. Freddie Young had the reputation as being the finest lighting cameraman in this country. It was completely disproved by plenty of other lighting cameramen because they were much better than him, and he established his reputation as being the finest because he was able to[…]
