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[…]take. I wasn't really creative on that picture at any level.SC : I think you were on the editing. I seem to remember the combination of our editing talents, if I can put it modestly on behalf of both of us, Charles, the combination of our editing talents, we would work alternately on sequences on th[…]
[…]e about the battleship, what was that called, Alf's Button Afloat. There is a rathermarvellous shot in it, I've seen it since, it's the shot down the length of the deck of thebattleship and by the Schufftan process we just built the gun turret and the guns and thedeck. And the whole of the superstru[…]
[…]sp;time was Tom Little liner I think and also the a new official which was Len Charlton from the sample from USO district office because Len there was still&nbs[…]
[…]like that. I remember the fall of France sitting in the mess and oneof these old dead-beats, the Colonel, a chap called Frankie Elliot, in the dead silence after the newshe said "Ah" he said "so the Frogs have packed it in bloody good thing too"! That was the sort ofapproach of the elder brethren, a[…]
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[…]nd it was there was no parallax. That was a innovation they brought in later on, where you could move the eyepiece to allow for the parallax with the lens, because it was offset. The eyepiece was in the right hand corner, and the lens was lower down on the left hand side. So if you were trying to ta[…]
[…] 'Ad Mags' or something. E.M. Smedley-Aston: That's it, exactly. And Len Heath was a leading copywriter with Lintas, a big […]
[…] low budget feature films and then he found his own length again of course with the STV series This Wonderful […]