[…]nal—Norman McLaren, the great animator. One was a brief introductory title, animated title, and the other was an ambitious abstract film derived from moving cathode ray tube patterns which were given synthetic color and synthetic depth by optical printing. And that was the first work of art for the […]
[…]ey always think I don't know if I can afford it, I don't know if I'm going to be out of work, if I'm on holiday the phone might ring so he was just removing that pressure form them to make sure they had a holiday. And he never accepted a subsidy, never accepted an Arts Council grant even when the th[…]
[…] into a structure there was really no room for promotion and you had to wait somebody's departure from a slot before you could even be considered for moving into it and at a certain point i think Cyril Crowhurst must have thought that he probably i think had his eye on me as a possible successor i t[…]
[…] mother's parents were from Holland, and they were living in the East End. I was born in Walthamstow on the 15th October 1927. My father seemed to be moving all the time from one place and one job to another. As a result I went to over twenty different schools. I think I was beaten up more times as […]
[…] I was reliant on him, and I thought ooh, I don’t want to go, I’m happy here and I like working with Lloyd and it was all so high-powered and so fast moving and so much to do and so busy. Anyway, I said oh alright, I grumbled a bit and pushed out my lower lip and said oh dear, oh alright, and I[…]
[…]hat's Yes, you know, yesUnknown Speaker 9:47 was I believeSpeaker 1 9:49 F Brown. I was surprised when I was at the Museum of moving images that F Brown had a collection of old. Uh, gold lacquered lentens and all that sort of thing. And I was very surprised and quite proud. Y[…]
[…]ion. There was a degree of adjustment in the printing but it had to be as right as one could have it in the camera and it was adjustable, by means of moving the prism. A jolly difficult thing to do on 1ocation. The reading of register when you were working in England – the camera was sent to the lab[…]
[…]p; 31:42 Yes, the process of shooting movies has become much more different now, where they won't bother taking down TV aerials and removing streetlights and painting over yellow lines, and they always want somebody around to sort of handhold and say, "Yes, we can take care of it and[…]
[…] talking about was the silent stage which is now at Shepperton and is going over to Pinewood, is it going over to Pinewood or Elstree, anyway they're moving it once againAlan Lawson: But that was used as aircraft storage or something during the war, wasn't itFreddie Francis: That I can't answer, bec[…]
