[…]apart from being physically heavier as the batteries were heavy, everything was just chunkier in those days! Well-made but just chunkier. I: So, moving to camera and E.N.G., there must have been a sense of more like freedom and even just, you can run around because the cameras are... R: Ab[…]
[…]eally stretched you, that part, I’m sure, because—VM: Well, it was four months, which was quite long in those days to film, and yes.JR: It was such a moving story.VM: It was such a moving story and you knew it was going to have a tragic ending. I met so many real people who had been part of that wor[…]
[…]ow we found him because he attracted this gigantic crowd which eventually a policeman turns up and there's this big man big white nose shouting We're moving. So that was the third day. So that was the beginning of our troubles. That's the bad side. But then of course I did another picture with aweso[…]
[…]ens, but just thinking when I see a film made possibly by an old fashioned director or old fashioned camera, it is sometimes more trouble to do it by moving a camera or changing a lens, but I think the end result is more peaceful and more conducive to the. Good filmmaking, but that, again, everybody[…]
[…]you know, and it basically he needed more money. And so the decision was to get rid of MGM. And there was a choice, there was a choice between A B PC moving up to MGM at the time, because it was a purpose built studio, which started with just before the war, I believe. Anyway, and I think Brian was […]
[…]TV was the fact that when STV moved, I'm trying to think, it would be about '74 now, they had to move out of the Theatre Royal as Scottish Opera were moving in and they'd also built a new building round the back of Cowcaddens and everything was being moved into that, we obviously had to get out of t[…]
[…]that growing militancy. Well, ABS had never traditionally been kind of a left-wing union, but suddenly we find about the time of NATTKE that they are moving, that they introduced, to everyone's astonishment, the ABS backed a boycott on South African production, GM: Yes. RL: And banned it. […]
[…] didn't we? That's right. Well, what happened was they had meetings and asking people's reactions and thoughts about programmes because suddenly moving and everything, it was all sort of like everything was completely upside down. And Danny was one of the suggested garrison theatre and said, th[…]
[…]iles 0:43 Well, I suppose it began really with my, as a kid I had an interest in in films, I was always thought it was magic to go to the pictures. And I used to have my own little 35 mil hand turn projector, which I spent my pocket money going to this sweet shop and buying 30 or 60 foot[…]
[…]he traction engines always fascinated me For a start, but there was of course all electric lighting was wonderful. And then I've seen that magic side moving pictures. And that evening, the the proprietor I presume, I think they call them Barker's in those days. He was on the front telling us with a […]
