[…]hen she'd got pneumonia. And then [???] extraordinary film, we had to have [huge ???] spiders...supposed to be about four foot and we had [each scale model] made of the...[it was doing part ???]. 'Cause these spiders were supposed to be chasing [her coming] down the hall. And they'd got, from South […]
[…]ey did at…gardens, near Richmond. And the rest was done in the studio, and I can’t tell you, if you look at it, it was bloody amazing, and there were models and they built the monastery full size. Alfred Junge was the production designer and it was amazing. So, I was there with Teddy Carrick and the[…]
[…]s in 56. So that was where I met kennis more. Again, to turn up in my life as it were. We had a lot of trouble as you can imagine, in those days with models. They weren't anything like what people have been able to achieve since. And they didn't spend the money on them in those days either. But I go[…]
[…] from Silent to sound on film, modifications to the debris printers. And of course, then He manufactured gyroscopic tripods for cameras, and then the Model H cameras, which I worked on, and that is where British acoustic come into it. Gomont British, they wanted a 35 mil picture camera with sound. S[…]
[…]lson was editing and he said to me “Well, I don’t know what this plane is doing or what it’s like, they’re all in a muddle.” They’re doing all models of them you see, and he couldn’t cut them together until he got these models. So I had to get these straight. Down at Wattisham air[…]
[…]hem. While I was at the Asian programmes unit, there was one about severe for example, who was the first Muslim bond, well, Pakistani Bond girl and a model and so we did a half an hour about her. Then it was Nikki cartrack, who was the first again Karachi girl for who was a ballerina with the Royal […]
[…]sketch. He was the only one that I ever saw do this as thorough, even though younger had this principle too, but Tom had it. And of course, Tom was a modeler, a modeler, to start with. His brother was a modeler, and his father was a modeler, and he was reputed to have made one big mistake. Once he s[…]
[…]war loot, a number of German frontline tape recorders. They were very heavy, very ponderous but they worked extremely efficiently. Even with those as models the BBC research and development department which was of course part of engineering division failed to produce any sort of workable tape record[…]
