[…]t to see any more death, guns, violence, mashed up people, God knows, it is possible to make quite quiet films.SF: Yes.That...SF: Let’s take Kes as a model. I think the best thing Ken Loach has ever done in his life is that beautiful little film.That’s it.SF: So we are now, I’m going to wind up now […]
[…]s best in fact if we actually reduced that side of the operation and concentrated more on the PSC and the lightweight work, which is what we did, the model that is there now today.Interviewer 25:58 Okay, so the crews that you manage ... do you actually employ crews? Did you actuall[…]
[…]d the first picture I got my break on as First Assistant was with the late Arthur Woods on Drake of England. And Ronnie Neame was going to do all the model shots because there were quite a lot of scenes with galleons blowing over and all that sort of thing. And so Ronnie had sort of been promoted fr[…]
[…]hip for a while.SPEAKER: M2And now of course he cuts his own films and uses the name that he used when he was a newspaper gossip columnist. He uses a model crust. Yes.SPEAKER: M18Do you see he can edit him and he really is. Physically can he's physically capable of editing. Yes. Oh that's all right.[…]
[…]the wounded troops, how did your theatrical career progress?Dicky Leeman: I was always mad about the theatre. At a fairly early age I was given a toy model theatre, which I used to write the stories myself. They were mostly fairy stories. They gave you a script to work from, within a few days I had […]
[…]ome good cogent lessons, how you can make or help someone to draw reasonably well. In a course of the two weeks of constantly slaving away in a model or a still life, they become aware of certain rules to do with proportion to do with distance to do with horizons and to do with perspective. I'[…]
[…] in and - so that the operator got an idea of where the centre was if nothing else! And before that, when was it when we had what was called a Vinten Model H, and that one, the cameraman actually looked through the film while he was shooting. So he had to have his eye right up against the eyepiece a[…]
