[…]s that all the men like him who were away in the war for like two, three years came back having missed home so much that there was almost like a mini liberation movement for a very short time so that he, in all our lives brought us up equally. He had the money primarily, but when it came to like chi[…]
[…]ues relating to things like special effects, what would be done by digital now, are things we used to call them travelling mattes. The early Superman films and the early Raiders of the Lost Ark films and stuff like that, well they were done with travelling mattes where you use an optical printer wit[…]
[…]time and but in fact, a lot of their stuff a lot of those things were were throwbacks to the to the early silent comic films and I think you know the liberation of the camera i mean i i mean on six sided triangle which I was Boulting brothers gave me a production manager to do oversee the shoo[…]
[…]hey were up, they were down. So I practically got fired on the spot then. They did give me another chance. Meanwhile I was getting very interested in films, I was a great film goer and I was wondering whether I could somehow combine my writing with films. I was ignorant of what one did but I thought[…]
[…] me another chance. Meanwhile I was getting very interested in films, I was a great film goer and I was […]
[…]o Malaya, the uprising in Malaya, he filmed that for the newsreel. He went to Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising, and I can see some of Ronnie’s films still very clearly in those days. Now, just to underline the awfulness of that chap Harold Cox. Harold, at no stage, did he ever sen[…]
[…]s ’54, 1954. So I thought, well that sounds alright. Because I did a lot - not a lot - I was in the film society at college, and I’d made a couple of films, or worked on some films there and I applied for trainee assistant film editor, BBC television, and I got a place on that in, I think, April ’55[…]
[…] - Shell Film Unit that is, was more concerned with international considerations of environment and you had as a consequence this wonderful series of films which were made after the war under the guidance of Arthur Elton and Stuart Legge,. particularly, who came in and made films in association with[…]
