[…]d for a poster, and this was in large as a photographic poster, only to discover that in the rack the photographer had left his hat and we got a lady model recumbent in the sleeper the poster was strapped. On another occasion, being in the press desk. In those days, the railway, railway zone, the Gl[…]
[…]n saw one, let alone shot it down.Alan Lawson: Yes, yes.David Prosser: So, this is when the services were so incredibly co-operative. They built me a model (at my request), they built me a model of the JU88 to scale and everything else - beautifully done - and they said "well how are you going to ge[…]
[…]es. Was that for the Children's Film Foundation?Joy Batchelor: Mm, mm.Kay Mander: And that was, what, animation and real people?Joy Batchelor: It was model and real people.Kay Mander: Did you do a lot of models?Joy Batchelor: Not too much, because we neither of us really liked it.Kay Mander: Because[…]
[…] camera did you have that first day?Speaker 2 12:12 That was the house in those days, the human thinker camera and the old one, the first models where you had a prism which you pushed in for focusing, then you pulled it out and took your picture, and you had a very primitive viewfinder w[…]
[…]d three stages.Robert Beatty: Sounds about right.Roy Fowler: Was San Demetrio a big film in terms of the studio.Robert Beatty: Fairly big. They had a model stage as well, which might have been the fourth stage, model of the boats and things.Roy Fowler: If you look at it now it looks very studio boun[…]
[…]ttish, whatever he was. He had his own camera which was an American Bell and Howell, four turret job you know. And the Mitchell today is more-or-less modelled on that I think. So he had the most up-to-date camera. Horace Weddon, another cameraman used to use a Pathe camera, which you would just cran[…]
[…]d it. And it said, "The perfect secretary," I remember the opening, "The perfect secretary is like the perfect butler." So I thought, "Ah, now I must model myself..." I was a great 'Jeeves' fan at that time... I thought, "Now, I must model myself on 'Jeeves'." So I said, "Yes, Sir, no Sir, three bag[…]
[…];and of course being so long awayI threw the book at them with the hanging miniatures and models andprocess work and so on. But they were very pleased with it.It was a ve[…]
[…] What else? One – I think – then I became a sound camera operator.LH: Still at Ealing.WR: Still at Ealing. And it was about the third RCA – the third model that they had made – we seemed to have used car headlamps for the exciter lamp and burn them at a much higher ampage than one should do so they […]
