[…]a little, not much. He was busy man. Anyway, I got very interested in bought books on design. Gordon Craig's started copying this and making the four models in this office. When you said you were making models, he began to design their design over I mean, I was following Cedric White he was you know[…]
[…]ighly trained. I'd often go and do that work, do all the setups and organise the lumps or rock or tension or whatever was required. And I do a bit of modelling from sets. I mean David who would have the most elaborate search for a film and I just for the fun of it staff organising models and figures[…]
[…]t we hadn't got a track of that at all. But this shows what a sort of home-made affair 'Night Mail' was... it so happened that my brother was a great model locomotive fan and had a Bassett-Lowke Gauge One steam engine and Gauge One railway line, you see. And he also had a tiny model bogie, and when […]
[…]quipped to do this, but I did have I had had the advantage I was really inspired by Frank Capra's Why We Fight the series, which was to mine mine the model of what what I would do but from from the British point of view. And this was I think, where an editor did come in I mean, I thought thought tha[…]
[…]ne with Paul Getty, and one on - called The Solitary Billionaire, and then we did one on Fiona Thyssen, Baron Thyssen’s wife who was a famous English model, and we made a film of that called Model Millionairess, and then we did one on foxhunting, Death in the Morning, with Whicker. NS Now that,[…]
[…]was a bit sequence which never really started, where the - with a ferry from Stromness comes and is emerging. And you were straight into close-ups of model shots or something like that, it was all pretty feeble, and I spent a long time in theatres in Wardour Street, finding particular shots for thin[…]
[…]g stages and one enormous barn called the silent stage because it was so 20 noisy. There was no soundproofing at all. That was used for gigantic model or ship scenes. Shepperton had changed considerably. They had a giant power house generating much more power than previously. A lot of new build[…]
[…]we had at Waterloo news theater was BTH, sound of, I believe BTH projector, and the lamp house was a Kaylee type lamp house, but I can't tell you the model number. Okay, going mentioned this coming again, the Classic. I went to one or two of their cinemas around London, more or less local to w[…]
[…]more or less together and they earned a reputation in asfar as each of them married one of the models for Selfridges. Selfridges had two models, Dawn and somebody or other. And Ken Roberts marrie[…]
