[…], I mean, David did live up there in Birmingham. I mean, he had quite a big house, he lived like a Country Squire, outside Stratford. And some of the production and the production managers and the FM's and so forth, all tended to have settled in in Birmingham. We actually commuted for throughout the[…]
[…]ng out. Because, you know, we there's no way we're going to be able to write a scope this and reshooting it. Bear in mind the various issues with the production of "Brazil "was going to be very unlikely, and it was quite a key sequence. So one of my optical printer technicians, and I worked basicall[…]
[…]d: God! It's a baptism of fire that, isn't it?Peggy Gick: God, it was a nightmare! But somehow we did get through. And it wasn't...we had a very nice production manager, whose name I forget...and it wasn't until the end of [the summer?] that he came to me and said, "by the way, how much experience h[…]
[…]for mile and a half together with the Americans from the American sector because it was the nearest to the thing that was my first actual my first CO production with the Americans. And we, it was a huge operation, I was only really in charge of the, of the, of the analysis of of what the traffic was[…]
[…]gh in my leaving party said that I was probably the person who invented this step up for female staff between the typing pool and the continuity girl production assistant is now called, and getting somewhere more creative. I was nearly thrown out several times the bluerinse, ladies in BBC staff appo[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]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[…]
[…]nbsp; a rnan called Bill Able, and our ultimate boss was Tim White , he was chief production manager, and he controlled the making of the films being made by Independent Producers, Indepe[…]
[…]ed very much Jewel in the Crown, now that I adored, that to me is art, so you have moments, but because of the demand it 's like Macdonald, it's mass production.AL: You've had Dick Lester here quite a lot. He did a lot of his early stuff here.GC: First of all he started with the Beatles, and that wa[…]
