[…]teen, yes.Alan Lawson: God. What did your father say when you moved?David Robson: He said - I told him and he said, "Well, that's a good sign, you're moving on. You're still in the business." He wasn't too happy about that [laughs]. But after all, I was a chip off the old block I suppose. I suppose […]
[…] mechanical shoot…or was it just a matter of directing traffic, moving actors around… CB: Oh no, no, no, no there […]
[…]rning over to it completely. But like when I was working on Elephant Man and we had those very complicated, like the opening when the mother’s head’s moving and the elephants are jumping on her and all that kind of thing. And you can’t get into the mind of somebody like David Lynch, nor would you wa[…]
[…]rking in cinemas, by this time I was a second at the News Theatre in Birmingham and I thought I’d got a pretty good job and I wasn’t going to risk er moving and not getting another one. My brother David was a projectionist at British Movietone and he said “I don’t think that you should be working in[…]
[…]d they pay much attention to performance, to characterization...Or, or was it a very mechanical shoot...or was it just a matter of directing traffic, moving actors around... CB: Oh no, no, no, no there was a lot of time taken to, to explain, explain your character and what you were going to do in th[…]
[…]room, nor did any of the others prior that Hugo did, but not very much. But he he got me cutting things that we wouldn't do in those days, like, on a moving camera and that sort of thing, which became, when nobody ever thinks about it, they don't even notice it now, but in those days, it was you kno[…]
[…]rget why - well I suppose to see Valentino. There he was working in a silent picture and er, I got an eyeful of him and then we went!Roy Fowler: Well moving on then from that, what then? What do you remember then?Eddie Dryhurst: Well I'd always wanted to work for Carl Laemmle, the president of Unive[…]
[…]t terrified, actually being, being with all this, these airways going on. And whereas I, on the contrary, was so relieved to be something that wasn't moving about, they couldn't wait to go back to see but then every now and again, anyway, I did come back to Ealing, come to the studio and Kevin Count[…]
[…]e thatRoy Fowler 35:46 will cease then to worry. Well, have we come to the end of your period in sponsored films? Do you think are we now moving into your features? Yes,Speaker 1 36:00 we have, I mean, what is down?Roy Fowler 36:10 Unless there was something speci[…]
[…]re was that?Tilly Day: Wood Street, Walthamstow. The old Wood Street, Walthamstow film studio. I'd never heard of the film studio, I thought the pictures were made, you know, sort of somehow magically out of the air! Whenever I went to the pictures, which I was not allowed to do, I went in the […]
