[…] classics such as The Guns of Navarone (1961), Lolita (1961),  The Hill (1965), Oliver! (1968) (nominated for an Oscar in 1968) and Goodbye Mr Chips (1969) following in quick succession. Pumpkin […]
[…]tree or somewhere?PM: No, at Shepperton.DB: Ah, okay.PM: For HBO, directed by Guy Green, and lit by Freddie Young [BEHP Interview No 0004] so you got Oscar winner Guy Green, Oscar winner…right, so Guy Green would be sitting there in his chair, waiting for lighting to be finished, and Freddie would b[…]
Chili BouchierChili Bouchier (1909-1999) was a British film actress, after working as a model forHarrods, she won a Daily Mail competition to become a film star. Her films included Shooting Stars (1927), The Return of Carole Deane (1938) and Dead Lucky (1960).I: 29th of May 1996 we are at BECTU head[…]
BEHP transcript DisclaimerThis transcript has been produced automatically using Otter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for[…]
[…]I was working on the Schools, basically. Which was 35mm and black and white, in which - I mean, apart from anything else, Chris Menges, who’s now our Oscar-winning cameraman, was a clapper loader, focus-puller. I made that film and then we, well we cut it at the BBC and dubbed it in spare time at th[…]
[…]d comes out the other end of a Turkish bath as Blimp. I can’t remember how they did it, and Perinal, this great French photographer who was our first Oscar winner I think – he was [Alexander] Korda’s cameraman, and it took two days. Well, I was used to 40 to 60 set-ups a day at Ealing. You daren’t l[…]
