[…] anything else for that matter, would phase automatically. We thought this was the answer, because what we wanted to do, we wanted to turn VTR into a production tool, we didn't like the idea of just recording and transmitting, anybody could do that. As long as they knew how the machines worked and d[…]
[…]rible spend the wasteful spend doubling up having to aircraft the same time made by two different. Firms and then only one aircraft actually going to production that was so wasteful. So. There was a lot I became very interested also in television at that stage and towards the end of my career at Bri[…]
[…]y wrote back and said no, we will pay you (laughs). I couldn't get over it; we will pay you nine pounds a week2 Roy Oxley (1899-?) was a British production designer at the BBC, he won a BAFTA for his work on The Portrait of a Lady in 1969.3 Peter Bax was a production designer at […]
[…] So anyway I was off. That film was photographed by Claude Friese-Greene and the operator was Guy GreenAfter that I'd got embroiled in Herbert Wilcox productions, because Herbert virtually ran the studios then. And there I was until we were doing a film which Freddie Young was photographing with Joh[…]
[…]bout designing for silent films. Did you work for any of the Mid-West chains?C. D. No I didn’t do any film work out in the States.R. F. I didn’t mean production work. You said stage work.C. D. Oh yes, that was in Canada.R. F. In theatres rather than cinemas.C. D. No not cinemas. Stage shows. It was […]
[…]y exciting or unusual or different, but because of that people saw in the studio that I had done a lot of that sort of work and Donald Wilson was the production manager on it. He might have been first assistant, he might not have moved up to production manager in those days, but it was he who then g[…]
[…]nt, I wish I could think of his name but I can't, and his secretary and I think that was about all. And then on the next floor up, of course, was the production office with our production manager and the newsroom. The news editor was Ted Adams and our production manager was Jack Ramsden who prior to[…]
[…] then on the next floor up, of course, was the production office with our production manager and the newsroom. The […]
