[…]ng of the days when television was making inroads and I think there was probably only two films being made and there were something like 36 stages at MGM, you really rattled around in the place.Roy Fowler: Did you tour the lot.Robert Beatty: No, I didn't actually tour it. Richard Brooks: I liked him[…]
[…]e beginning of the 1930's found me at Worton Hall Studios, Isleworth, where I was to make a picture for - well in association with Edward Whiting for MGM, quota purposes of course. It was to be shot without sound, and I think I'm right in saying it was about the last silent feature picture to be sho[…]
[…]is is where your name really became to be reckoned as a power and your credit list is a very impressive one. What was the….FY: Well I was lent out to MGM to do Goodbye Mr Chips by Herbert you see but as soon as I came out of the army MGM signed me up for seven years – it went on for 15 years. But th[…]
[…]women in love with the music lovers, and then the devils but after that he found it difficult to get finance. Well, I think it lasted long enough for MGM to finance the boyfriend, but they weren't too happy with what they bought. It's it's interesting that towards the end of the devil's can sort of […]
[…]women in love with the music lovers, and then the devils but after that he found it difficult to get finance. Well, I think it lasted long enough for MGM to finance the boyfriend, but they weren't too happy with what they bought. It's it's interesting that towards the end of the devil's can sort of […]
[…]an later, what became standard Cinemascope, you can re-create the original ratios digitally. Take a film – these are a couple of hobbyhorses of mine: MGM own two films, one It’s Always Fair Weather, which is one of the Kelly Donen musicals, which came after Singin’ in the Rain, and&nb[…]
[…]ooting back projection00:43:05 working with studios00:45:49 lab social relations00:47:00 workers and management00:50:28 a staunch Churchill man. MGM LABS 1951-5900:51:57 leaves Denham in 1951. Moved to Boreham Wood, 18 miles away; Thomas Howard, received Oscar for Blythe Spirit special effects.[…]
[…]in around that hacienda., Darrol Blake  4:22  yeah, yeah. I mean, this is the by the, by really. But Sony, of course, bought MGM, didn't they? Kent Houston  4:28  Well, it was a merger of interests, yeah, it was a purchase. But I believe that that is[…]
