[…]orily as “their opponents”. Round One was a team one identifying Film Studio trademark tunes or their sound effects. Both teams made easy pickings of MGM’s roaring lion and the 20th Century Fox fanfare but the deciding victory in this round for the Managers was that they identified not only the orig[…]
[…] end of that was announced that the studio was closing, being sold to the BBC. And we were tipped off. So you boys are okay, you will come with us to MGM. And that's great, got no problem. And I was the only person left in the camera department to hand over stuff that was being auctioned, and hand o[…]
[…]icularly during the ‘60s and ‘70s, we had Metrocolor, Deluxe colour, and we know that that was Eastmancolor negative being developed by, for example, MGM and Fox. Was there any, from your experience, was there any difference in terms of the colour reproduction, in those instances?SL: You know, the b[…]
[…]it’ll be a “Metrocolor” film. And now, obviously doing some digging, we’ve found that, obviously, a film… Metrocolor was a film that was developed by MGM. But this whole issue around Metrocolor, what’s your insight into that and why were certain films being listed in credits that they were being pro[…]
[…]cted with by that Tim Aymes 31:11 time, I saw a film called Hollywood review of 1929 at the National Film theatre, made by MGM, and that was made the sound on film. I do know that definitely, it was very interesting film. It had some colour inserts, Stanley Watkins&nb[…]
[…]s footage from you know, a clip from “Gimme Shelter”, you want to be careful what you’re doing. ‘Cause you’ll get you fingers...Or Warner Brothers or MGM, if you want a Hollywood major on your back, then rather you than me. They don’t mess around these people. So there isn’t really anything rea[…]
[…]ath Sydney Tafler. But you see who starred in it?McG: Valentino. It’s Anthony Dexter.HF: We were all going on about what crap this was, we made it at MGM while they were making a picture with Liz Burton [Taylor] and her husband.McG: Yes.HF: And there we were making this crap, which it really was.McG[…]
[…]Williams more in the 70s and 80s, and I appreciated it more then, and I’ve still got nearly all of Hank Williams’ original 10 inch LPs that he did on MGM. MDDid you play a musical instrument yourself? BANo. I’ve never played an instrument apart from… I bought a recorder for about sev[…]
[…]because you couldn’t buy it. Ten eight. I’ve still got them today.AP: I saw some shots of Ava Gardner and they were on transparencies (at MGM)CL: Dave Bolton was the photographer. He was American and came from HollywoodAP: so you all had your own territories?CL: we can’t get away f[…]
[…]I used to take a train to it and I wonder if the station is still there? I presume it is. But it was a very efficient organisation. Very good. It was MGM. Victor Saville was the Producer and I got a number of days dubbing as well, because apart from being a butcher boy, I also had &n[…]
