[…]recarious, and, besides, I was too fond of bossing other people around to go on for too long doing what I was told by other people. There weren't any producers in those days, you know, but, still, there were people to tell you what to do: they were known as stage managers. But this lead me to put on[…]
Copyright ACTT History Project, Bill Mason, film director, film producer, recorded on 4th October 1987, interviewer Alan LawsonAL: Where were you born.BM: I was born in Edgebaston, which is the snob part of Birmingham on 9th November 1915 .AL : What kind of schooling did you receive.BM: I went to on[…]
[…]Gentleman was Eva.Reggie Beck: In Rome, it was made in Rome entirely. Much better picture than it appeared when it was released because the producers messed about with it after it had been finished by Losey, they recut it, it was a very, very good film, one of the best he made in my time w[…]
[…]really a floating object in this tunnel all worked out on the drawing board. I believe one of the draughtsman was John Hawkesworth who was one of the producers of Upstairs, Downstairs. It's the same name, it may not be the same person but if it is the same person you should talk to him because […]
[…] based just off Oxford Street. And David Graham was a producer/direct or f rom Pano rama and Jeremy Isaacs who […]
[…] them. Each one had a one of the engineers sitting in front of it with the senior engineer then down below behind. This is the production desk with a producer sound and the vision mixer and time a clock hung was string and hand well man that that was off the main main timepiece. So you can see how e[…]
[…]es were not needing to be formed within the process they were simply…. it was dye destruction. Getting on to dyes, because dyes were a big important factor in the development of colour film. The advantages of the tri-pack were obvious it got away from three-strip and everything else but the Technico[…]
[…] recce, going to various locations, which also, we had to be very careful about where we were shooting, you know. And Amy Flanagan, who is one of the producers, she turned around, I was saying, "don't shoot up the set, shoot me. You know what I look like, I'm the one that's responsible, if that's wh[…]
[…]hirty people in one go and one of them was Diverse Production in Olympia although then they were based just off Oxford Street. And David Graham was a producer/director from Panorama and Jeremy Isaacs who was the original controller at Channel 4 he’d encouraged Graham to leave the BBC and, er, becaus[…]
