[…]t, Alan, I don't know whether you did, but it really was devastation, girders twisted like hairpins, you know, and so on. Anyway, that was the end of production briefly, but very briefly. All the pictures went, rapidly, into other studios and we kept going in some - one or two lines in British Inter[…]
[…]- it was very advanced at the time, so that was in the mid seventies so they broadcast in black and white to all the schools in Glasgow. They had two production studios where they made programmes dedicated for that. They had a Film Department. John Gow worked there, as did Steve Beck so there's a lo[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]d about a week learning how to do it from this boy's gonna leave go in the army. And I became the central loader, as it were, there was more than one production there at the time. So I had to sort of service more than one picture, load, the film, taking on the set, and so on, keep the stock accounts[…]
Dave Davies (DD)Laboratories – Production Controller (Technicolor)BECTU No. 230Interviewers: Alan Lawson (AL) and Syd Wilson (SW)Date 27/11/19912 Tapes Side 100:00:00 – 00:03:00 Introductions; born in South Wales, Troed-Y-Rhiw (foot of the hill), 1921; grammar school until 16; moved to West Dra[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]ink, drop a beer, but he always said to me that while there as I say, was our recent makeup man. But he always told me that he was working on a production. He would not touch any drink at all, because he thought it was unfair to the artist to make up the faces or any other things you have to d[…]
[…]s.David Prosser: But he hadn't done anything like newsreel or film work per say.Alan Lawson: Well, he had done.... er, yes...he'd been a...I think, a Production Manager pre-war, or something like that, um...David Prosser: I didn't associate him directly with the film business...anyway, he didn't see[…]
[…]ualitatively about her life and work, in the second session she is looking through photographs identifying various cast and crew members on different productions. Many of the stories told in the second session repeat material from the first session. Day is 84 years old at the time of this interview,[…]
