[…]. Have you ever had experience of having a monitor on the floor?Oh no.You know, telling you what to do?Oh yes, oh yes, I mean, when we've done...Y es.Musicals, like Fiddler on the Roof.Y es.And, mm...You found it a help did you?Sometimes to see the size of a shot, because, you know, again if yo[…]
[…]ds into with the director, interviewing artists. So the directors also wanted to be in London, because it meant they could see many other people, the music people, the set designers. They were all up in the Leeds. But the initial work did start as it were, down in London, and then on one occasion, w[…]
[…]ember, were you on Midshipman easy?Speaker 3 6:33 Midshipman easy, no, I didn't. I think was Alan James on easy, I think, did you mention music? Yeah, no, I don't think so.Unknown Speaker 6:46 The film you first worked with me.Unknown Speaker 6:51 No, I can't.Spea[…]
[…], at that time with the royal family, you couldn't have a microphone. Nobody could record what was said. That was the agreement. You could record the music, you could record everything else, but you couldn't record what they said. If you did, you didn't use it. And I mean, a few years ago, the royal[…]
[…] Peet: The switch to 16mm or the switch to tape?Philip Leacock: A switch to tape. But it doesn't seem to work as well. And it's funny because all the musicals and the comedies are done on tape. What they are doing now is that - and they may be advancing from that now - but for the last couple of yea[…]
[…]nable - they were up to about here - and you laced them and there were studs - you’ll see them in the variety girls and so on, the old time music hall. And that was one time when we really looked well off, you know, so beautifully dressed. Then as I told you we had to do this moonlight fli[…]
[…]w the sound systems worked in those days?Eric Cross: Yes, it was early sound on film, variable density, and we had great trouble with thewow on piano music. And we had a boffin who was named Crowther who invented a spin wheel as we called it which is a fly wheel the film went round and that evened o[…]
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