[…]ke now Lord Rowe-Beddoe, David Rowe-Beddoe, played the Longshoreman. So that was the kind of thing that I did. I also did Twelfth Night with Ian McKellen as Toby Belch, Corin Redgrave as Orsino. Trying to remember this - Margaret Drabble as Viola and Trevor Nunn as Sebastian, who also held my script[…]
[…]came very good friends what was after what after Barbara? I left school and more Breyer with a smattering of whatever it was, in those days the equivalent of a levels the age of 17 and was rash enough to join the Territorial Army with love of my mates and Gerald's grass, and we thought they were hel[…]
[…]nd he had a focus puller called Karl Matthews. That's important because of what happened subsequently. So there I was, I was dumped on - it was the silent stage, they'd moved it from... (Where did it come from, that silent stage?) Alex had bought it, it came of an aerodrome, didn't it?Sidney Cole: Y[…]
[…]nth we went away on proper location and what a time that was. It was really like one enormous playground, absolutely incredible. There was Cyril McLaglen, Alf Goddard, Benita Hume, Cyril McLaglen and Alf Goddard were the chief villains really and we'd only been in the hotel for about half an hour an[…]
[…]gham who was my assistant, or by John Rinders who was then was the Director of BIP and they were doing an enormous amount of scoring of their early silent films and John used to give me a lift and take me back of an evening and likewise David Cunningham.Alan Lawson 07:46What, what wages w[…]
[…] roof. Arthur Graham: What was the working day and the length of the working week? Alan Lawson: At first they […]
[…]all in the right order. And I began to sort of get to get hooked on it. And when it was time to leave school, I just matriculated which was the equivalent of somewhere between the current GCSE C O level and a level is just a little bit higher than Oh, the headmaster at school. Say, Brad, so what are[…]
[…]ITN rates or something. That was the pay scale and I wasn't allowed to shoot anything other than News footage and, in theory, the grading was for a silent cameraman but, you know, that was 1977. So, I was very, very lucky as, at that time, I was probably the youngest staff cameraman anywhere in Scot[…]
