[…] invited to volunteer I was up there, [chuckles] I jumped like a kangaroo! That was really the beginning of it and that was in 1917. And we worked on location near St Albans and I loved every minute of it and couldn't wait to get next to the producer as he was called in those days, the director, and[…]
[…]I was the first time I'd worked with that type of television type crew, and it opened my eyes as to how you can work very fast with limited amount of location lighting. And it was most interesting as a technical experiment, what camera equipment were they using? We were using quite straightforward a[…]
[…]ut a ship coming from South America to England, and the whole film was shot in the studio against blue backings, the whole blinking film except a few location shots done by Peter Hennessy. When the film was finished and printed somebody said to me I saw a lovely picture the other day, pity about tho[…]
[…]was tremendously heavy equipment you know, and and so much was done in the studio and built which wouldn't have been done in later years, you'd go on location, I mean, you never built sets that they were building madness, I thought really but but because the gear was so heavy, the camera gear and in[…]
[…]akdown a shot or shot breakdown of the script and because it's such an awful an awful long time to get the money together I was able to examine locations and find new detail and so that I suppose the preparation time is the time who's been with the producer once you once you get going Of[…]
[…]n was one of the boys had been injured. I can't remember now whether it was John Junior or whether it was Peter. And his car system that Steve was on location shooting. It might very well have been his car at the studio. In the car park at the bottom end of her Grove. So the old man was commissioned[…]
[…]d found that Vicky was also being rehearsed over night by Dean and this made his work very difficult. They were at daggers drawn.[Sydney Cole went on location at the request of both Flood and Dean – Flood wanted to prevent Dean overseeing the editing of the film - Dean wanted some one to keep an eye[…]
