Ken Adam (KA)Art Director, Production DesignerBECTU No.416Interviewer: Rodney Giesler (RG)Date 12/03/1997 & 29/07/19973 Tapes 12/03/1997Side 100:00:00 – 00:29:30 Introductions; born 1921 in Berlin; upper middle class family, German-Jewish; his father had a sports store in Berlin and used to[…]
[…] tothe States to learn the technique of sound coverage and came back, continued to be their ChiefCamera man until about 1936-37. He then became their Production Manager and he was sort ofvirtually running the operational side of Movietone until the War. He was a first class aerialphotographer, havin[…]
[…]ne was one name I must mention, must mention, and that's DH, Monroe, yes, remember? DH, yeah, you will Yes. Well, DH, really ran the shop. He was the production manager. I don't what you call him in today's world. Alan Lawson 17:07 He was supremo. Bill War[…]
[…]t know for months afterwards that Jesmond Dene is where the theatre is situated. We made this film at Ealing Studios, but it wasn’t an Ealing Studios production, it was some tatty little firm. Somebody wanted to put me under contract, my father was appalled- the mere idea was dreadful for him and I […]
[…] requirements which was what you know a pound for six rebels I think was the quote or act reply. I honestly can't tell me I wasn't near enough to the production party but I would mention that. They possibly made an attempt on an occasion to make[00:10:22:980] - SPEAKER: M3. A film to justify the cos[…]
[…]ide to go into film. It sort of happened. Actually, I started professionally in the theatre, I suppose when I was eleven. That was in Max Reinhardt's production of The Miracle at Olympia in 1911. And then I went back to the theatre when I was fourteen, and I played... Yes! Talking of films, I'm alwa[…]
