[…]t the BBC actually nearly died. As a digital I was involved in this thing we did the digital evaluation, where we compared all that we built a set at Pinewood and weUnknown Speaker 31:05 were tested on about 12 or 13 cameras. We tested film, the film stocks and all the different cameras […]
[…]o Stratford-upon-Avon. And he wanted to shoot in a naturalistic fashion in a real wood and unfortunately the production was tied, for some reason, to Pinewood. And that meant that we had to take all of the electricians and the equipment from the studio and that meant that the lamps I was obliged to […]
[…]ow, since I was a boy I’ve used Eastmancolor negative and I’m happy with it.” And, again, you got reps in London and if they’re shooting a feature at Pinewood and there’s a problem someone would hotfoot it over there. And we had, let me think now, 1-2-3-4-5, we had five technicians and two technical[…]
[…]r 100BG What happened then?CY Well I think a lot of guys who were in cinemas on the Rank circuit thought it was it might be a backdoor into movies at Pinewood but it didn't work out that way. So I thought along all right with them but after a few years.I thought well I've always wanted to be in film[…]
[…]fferent studios because once you have one interview, well inn those day it was like this, they'd say "Go and say so-and-so", you know, Merton Park or Pinewood Studios. Well actually I went to Merton Park which burnt down in... actually it burnt down when we were there one night in the 1970s..? I can[…]
Johnathan Mann (JM)Restoration (Pinewood Studios)BECTU No.603Interviewers: Joe Naud (JN)Date: 14/07/2010Video00:00:00 – 00:10:42 JM discusses his previous roles; neg-cutter at Mike Frasier’s; started as a runner, moved to sound syncing; freelanced for Technicolor, sound-syncing and video work; moved[…]
