[…]p; JIM WHITTELL: I think more fundamentally as so often happens Rank had taken over the largest cinema distribution and production company in Holland, and having taken it over left it with the original owner to run it. Very, very naïve. And within a few mont[…]
[…] in Ireland. And we had all our own equipment on that, as MGM weren't interested because it was um - David Lean had a sort of company called 'Faraway Productions' which was based, I think, in Switzerland - but MGM sort of washed their hands of it. And we were on the payroll of 'Faraway Productions' […]
[…]ent comic films and I think you know the liberation of the camera i mean i i mean on six sided triangle which I was Boulting brothers gave me a production manager to do oversee the shoot, which we did in six days as we did in five days. And the reason why it is so quickly that the the silent t[…]
[…]red what was going to happen. But because I think ESL really, they did just want the educational film library, what they got was a film library and a production company. So the first thing they did was to shoot the film library down to Bristol. Now they were stuck with this sort of racehorse that ke[…]
[…]ll Studios, where I met Clifford Pember, who was art director to Herbert Wilcox. He was a well-known stage designer - he'd designed a number of stage productions in New York and a number in London as well. He was an old Wykehamist and he had been at the Architectural Association in his youth, had be[…]
[…]esigns in them, which should be remembered. And when people look back on the history of television, you know, what marvellous designs this particular production had and who the designer was working to you? Obviously? I mean, can you think of a few? Well, this becomes a gigantic blur. I can think of […]
