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[…] ran into Donald Alexander, just by accident, and he suggested I should go and see Paul Ruther again, who had, by then, got his own firm, Paul Ruther productions. And. And Paul was quite glad to see me, because most people had joined up, and there was a shortage of people about who had some film exp[…]
[…]00 different sources, you have to develop a different sort of system for your unused text cuts and overs and spares from what you will for continuous production, I think continuous original material.Michael Legard 42:49 It sounds like a bit of a drudgery that they're having to scratch on[…]
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[…] Despite other successes in the 1940s, he worked in B-feature production, particularly horror films, for much of the 1950s and […]
[…] Borehamwood studios, after about two years he moved back into production as assistant dubbing mixer. Worked on various films , […]
[…]t all this stuff, and nobody ever uses it. And that he actually had the grace to send a memo to the head of film department about what I had done was production. So that offset some of the careless mistakes from time to time,Simon Rose 43:07 apart from the technical stuff. I mean, how ab[…]
[…]s the centre of a tremendous battle between Microsoft and Stapleton Stapleton when he was a business manager, Microsoft was the creative in charge of production chat. And there was a dark horse or two in the background as well, all of them were doing their best to try and be the top man and an actua[…]
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