BECTU History Project -highlight">- Interview No. 294 [Copyright BECTU] Transcripti-highlight">on Date: 2004-highlight">-03-highlight">-18Interview Date: 1972-highlight">-05 Interviewers: Jim ShieldsInterviewee: Kay Mander Kay Mander: Joy, could we start with when and where you were born?Joy Batchelor: I was born in Watford, and at […]
[…]ob AllenSIDE 1, TAPE 1BA : Perhaps you could tell us when you first ca me into -highlight">the film industry, how you got interested in filmmaking, what lead you -highlight">- into it.BE: -highlight">The most interesting thing is that as a teenager I was all against films, I never went to see a film when I was a teenager, -highlight">they were fa[…]
[…]an engineering miracle to me, it had two gates in -highlight">the camera which were at right angles to each o-highlight">ther and -highlight">one was a single film and -highlight">the o-highlight">ther was a bi-highlight">-pack. Two films running toge-highlight">ther emulsi-highlight">on to emulsi-highlight">on and -highlight">the image coming through -highlight">the lens was split intensity allowing a third of light to -highlight">the sing[…]
[…] 13:28 I did a few shots in a picture. I describe him as a good camera man. He lit a picture in Hollywood before he came here that w-highlight">on an -highlight">-highlight">-highlight">Oscar, I think for photography, he was somewhere -highlight">on -highlight">the nervy, really type as I remember him. You know, after he licked something, he wasn't sure if h[…]
BEHP transcript DisclaimerThis transcript has been produced automatically using Otter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-highlight">-transcripti-highlight">on/.It provides a basic, but unverified or p-highlight">roofread transcript of -highlight">the interview. -highlight">Therefore, -highlight">the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for[…]
BEHP transcript DisclaimerThis transcript has been produced automatically using Otter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-highlight">-transcripti-highlight">on/.It provides a basic, but unverified or p-highlight">roofread transcript of -highlight">the interview. -highlight">Therefore, -highlight">the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for[…]
BEHP transcript DisclaimerThis transcript has been produced automatically using Otter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-highlight">-transcripti-highlight">on/.It provides a basic, but unverified or p-highlight">roofread transcript of -highlight">the interview. -highlight">Therefore, -highlight">the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for[…]
[…]lmed Guy Fawkes night with Shaw J-highlight">ones, that was some kind of joint venture. We weren't involved financially with it but we joined with him and we had -highlight">-I went down from Cambridge and wanted to get into films and every-highlight">one said -highlight">the film industry was in crisis, this was 1938, and i was involved in a sma[…]
[…]of -highlight">the film was shot in Spain not Jordan; Doctor Zhivago was shot in Spain – David Lean thought of making it in Russia originally; FY talks about his -highlight">-highlight">-highlight">Oscar wins; Cubby Broccoli sent FY to Technicolor Hollywood to check -highlight">the prints of You -highlight">Only Live Twice; he recalls meeting Walter Pidge-highlight">on.[END]
