[…]e, we put on a play - each house put on a play every year and we had a school play and I got involved with all of that, and I got interested in stage managing - being a bossy type, so I was told! And so when I was living in Germany after I'd left school, the British community used to put on a play e[…]
[…] with a film called Fortune's Fool, Norman Walker was the director. Th en I. started on my second film lighting but […]
[…]es you then worked on A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Peter Hall, which I believe was one of his early films… obviously being a theatre director. As a theatre director, how did Peter, sort of, approach that film? And were there any special instructions …PS: Yes, it was a tri[…]
[…]ofessional editor to work with them overnight, they made a speech, Mark made a speech at this function, which is far better than the Evening Standard managing directors speech and 10 times better than principled speech. When God did this, they edited over that night. And by the next morning, they ha[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 54 [Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2002-10-01Interview Date: 1988-08-22Interviewer: Sidney ColeInterviewee: Jack RockettTape 1, Side 1 Roy Fowler: Copyright 1988, ACTT History Project. The interview is with Jack Rockett at Glebelands on 22 August […]
[…]bsp;girl.Hitch got into disfavour. He brought one of the Armours back,Wilfred as Art Director. Wilfred claimed me andHitch was strong and he got me. and then he got&[…]
[…]ecting.DB: The Kordas were obviously very strong, ‘cos Alex owned the place or at least owned the company. Tell me a bit about Vincent Korda, the Art Director.PM: Well there was Alex, there was Vincent, there was Zoltan… DB: You didn’t see much of Zoltan?PM: No, no. Wasn’t aware too much of Ale[…]
[…]the Beast – and Trish Van Devere, his real wife, played Beauty.[125] That was directed by an old friend of ours called Fielder Cook,[126] an American director. And then I did a film called The Disappearance (1977) with Donald Sutherland.[127] It was a tiny part – one scene or two scenes, or somethin[…]
[…]ng for fixated for his nose. Well this we didn't know anyhow that wiped out the whole of the first day and the second day which ended up an assistant director. Because now with the tea we got a problem on our hands. Well he he came back as we had to send him to hospital because I was in the train a […]
[…]h, you weren't on that. I was not on the film,Unknown Speaker 17:57 but I saw him on the set, andUnknown Speaker 18:02 he was managing quite well with his gaff Warner.Unknown Speaker 18:09 Then, then after that comes lucky number. Can you remember that was at Goon[…]
