Charles Wilder

[…]t's when we started working long hours, until two in the morning, Sunday mornings, any morning you know. But going back, it was a question of sort of moving with the development of the industry and of the studio, you know. The laboratory of course was always over the back of the studio when the glas[…]

Keith Ewart

[…]ox with a lens at the front and the target at the back. Well, true enough. It makes no difference. One one people had been stationary, but now you're moving. Well,Keith Ewart  26:46  I didn't move very much. Did I let the subject move a certain amount, but on the whole I stayed still. Okay[…]

Roger Davis

[…]got to remember is we would do an hour play like this live. So you had to move the cameras to the next setting. While you were. So there were cameras moving from one set to another, ready for the next shot. Because it was it was it was not like these days where you, you do a take recorded and then m[…]

Joe Mendoza

[…] tracking in treasure hunting to to shorten cut close up became less doctrinaire, but not have these funny little Penny clothes out to keep the story moving. You know what they do now? Of course, but they didn't then it was terribly 30 years of filmmaking. Anyway, Charles stayed on and was given the[…]

Donald Wilson

[…] How did they go? Donald Wilson  8:24It wasn't it wasn't as as technical as what was required. I mean, you could just get the equipment the Moving Making equipment. This was this was possible. They bought it all from America. I'm talking about the furniture, I'm talking about the just a pl[…]

Philip Leacock

[…]I believe was...Philip Leacock: It was Little Kidnappers, yes.Stephen Peet: It's very strange.Philip Leacock: Yes.Stephen Peet: Now, what was it like moving into American studios for the first time? Was the contrast considerable or was it very similar kind of methods of working?Philip Leacock: Very […]

Dennis Main Wilson

[…] in the handling of things and emergencies because we used to work 72 hours on and 72 hours off. And in 1940-41, the news, well 1941-42, the news was moving very quickly. So you snatched a couple of hours kip in the office and then a few days off.AL: Did you do continuity?DMW: No still playing in di[…]

Norman Fisher

[…] with the van on it's tyres, this absorbed quite a lot of the vibration so we didn't have that problem.Roy Fowler: Did you ever record with the truck moving? I don't mean on the train, I mean other times, could you take mobile recordings?Norman Fisher: I don't think we ever did, not in my time anywa[…]

Barrie Merritt

[…]irst line test for jelly Mata who which it wasn't very well well, it was a little bit old fashioned, shall we say the animation style and things were moving on in those days the old style of of bouncing ball kind of animation wasn't that popular in TV terms and he wasn't very successful. So we are i[…]

Dicky Leeman

[…]obe and costume people there, but often Jenna would give me a little tip about...Rodney Giesler: Towards the end of your time in television, you were moving into series on bridge and things like that. Was the nature of comedy changing?Dicky Leeman: Yes I think so. Good producers and directors like C[…]
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