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[…] project the name of the interviewee is award winning costume designer Julie Harris. The name of the interviewer Roy Lansford […]

Peter Stuart Mullins

[…]erton was going on and I was working at Shepperton, in the breaks was doing other things in the theatre. And doing Assistant Director jobs. I was moonlighting. It was highly illegal union-wise I suppose, but I knew somebody I think it was a second assistant, they wanted help on a picture called Nigh[…]

Freddie Francis

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 […]

Anne V Coates

[…]rt director and a cameraman, as I said, who didn’t get on, so that that the, the great Gothic sets that the art director was doing, the cameraman was lighting them black, [laughs] so that you couldn’t see them. [phone ringing] Excuse me. [break in recording] [0:25:00] Let me ask that question.[…]

John Aldred

[…]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 […]

Wolfgang Suschitzky

[…]rd, and still is the standard camera of documentary filmmakers. I.Speaker 1  0:00  In your work? Did you tend to favor rather low key style lighting, or you had no particularSpeaker 2  0:13  preferences? Well, it depended on the subject, but I was brought up to have only the mini[…]

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[…] I put a polar screen on and a bit of lighting and cut down the reflection as much as possible. […]

billywilliamsbectu-tape3

[…] one. Al: Because the action in fact distracts from the lighting Billy Williams: Yes, you need just a few seconds […]
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