[…]able recorder – it had its drawbacks – it had no erase head – you had to make sure the tape was absolutely clean before you used it. I had the 15 ips model which was pretty good quality. It was really ahead of its time. But recording trains used to take up a lot of my time and making records, and st[…]
[…]so they could get a good idea of what the aircraft looked like from its out line. We filmed the real aircraft. The images of the diving aircraft were models which Technicolor photographed frame by frame and they had an animation analysis machine so that they could control all the movements exactly c[…]
[…]t accompanied each film, and they had a synopsis of the story, and little titbits about the actors and what their hobbies were. James Mason collected model elephants! (laughter) It was just a broadsheet.Sidney Cole: For local journalists where the films were playing.Kay Mander: Yes. But that was int[…]
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[…]em for us. They were a little late coming through, but we were still clear of our budgets.RF: As I remember there were composites, and quite a lot of model work.VG: There was trick stuff like fog coming down the Thames, the Thames dried up, the police boat going down the trickle; Trafalgar Square co[…]
[…], I remember on one occasion taking one of the other camera blokes down to do some awkward filming of – at Wharton Hall – of some model chocks that were being automatically worked, a new idea, you see, and they had to dolights coming on them and one thing and another and this oth[…]
[…]d they'd be the key. The most important thing was how much they expect it? 400 feet, 200 feet, 1000 feet, or whatever they wanted. And that's how you modeled your film when you got there, if it was a good story, if it was a big story, much bigger than you imagined, you did the best you could, and yo[…]
[…]ad acting ability. You had your Connie Smiths, who was the young Irish girl who looked almost a lookalike for Hedy Lamarr. Anne Gunning, who’d been a model. She married well and I think did not pursue her career. One had one or two cases of this and of course you had quite a few little matrimonial v[…]
[…]ing about working at Ealing was that in its day it was the most up to date studio in Britain because it had been built, although much smaller, on the model of RKO. It was connected with RKO to begin with and therefore had oeen planned. It hadn't just grown like most of the older studios including El[…]
