Copyright is vested in the BECTU History ProjectFREDDIE FRANCIS, lighting cameraman, feature film director, interviewer Alan Lawson, recorded on 24 November 1993SIDE 1, TAPE 1Alan Lawson: When and where were you born?Freddie Francis: I was born in the wilds of North London, Barnesbury, north London […]
[…]ame from ICI he he was a chemical genius with colours and what because it was flipping camera was you know the blue backing and also the sodium lighting. We did the sodium lighting as well. Yeah. George Ashworth built in built the camera and I helped develop that. Does one of his crew think Ma[…]
[…]e lights in the valley, and borrowed a few rags of blankets and things like that. The first was normally post out came back, I took responsibility of lighting the fire and failed. We were limited to cigarette lighters and matches and extremely wet wood. So we all huddled into one bed, pulled everyth[…]
[…]own to it.Alf Cooper 17:42 Indeed, if one goes back really far into the past, the film printer had to do his own grading didn't judge the lighting as it was passing through the machine. So you have your events from those days, right up toBert Craik 17:57 Yes, well, that takes[…]
[…]own to it.Alf Cooper 17:42 Indeed, if one goes back really far into the past, the film printer had to do his own grading didn't judge the lighting as it was passing through the machine. So you have your events from those days, right up toBert Craik 17:57 Yes, well, that takes[…]
[…]was an expensive studio to run. The stages themselves were interesting. I can remember it was the first time I'd been in a film studio where they had lighting gantries suspended from the roof. If we'd done that at Shepperton the roof would have caved in. All the lighting at Shepperton was built -up […]
[…]hem up for him in those days.Roy Fowler: That was all extra curricular, it wasn't part of the Movietone news?Reg Sutton: No. That's what you call moonlighting and who hasn't done it?Roy Fowler: Don't tell Alan Sapper. Was there any American input ... Was there any feeling that it was an American com[…]
[…] time I'd been in a film studio where they had lighting gantries suspended from the roof. If we'd done that […]
[…] stick in the mud. And a good cameraman, a good lighting cameraman and he and 1 used to do the […]
[…]rve the Rib Room it’s puddings and deserts.” So, I said “You can’t. You can’t stop now in the middle of this.” I said, “I’ll delegate the lighting man to serve the Rib Room.” [laughter from all three]. So, the Rib Room were getting their puddings served up by the lighting man form […]
