[…]e a generator. No earthly possibility of getting a full-sized generator there, so knowing I was fairly mechanical, I said to Dora Wright, who was the production manager, I said, "Look, I'll find you a generator," which I did. I found a ten horsepower Ford with a generator attached to it, it hadn't b[…]
[…]zation.BH: No, I think It felt less and less, you know.JH: There were many more women, certainly in the Lime Grove era, Daphne was a typical example, production secretary, duty officer and assistant and things and then sideways into television production. And there were a lot of women at Lime Grove.[…]
[…]of course, you you had to have a terrible lot of light to even illuminate the subject on that you see.Roy Fowler 35:20 But these were pre production tests. Were they the camera man assigned to a film would want to testSpeaker 1 35:27 out? Sometimes camera men were buying the […]
[…] a lot to do. Master heart had a lot to do with theater, didn't he?Speaker 2 1:08 Yes, he did. He he was. He used to put on several productions at Daley's theater in Leicester Square, and she played the bell, and she, she had a beautiful voice. I still have all the photographs and […]
[…]ome reason for saying that and it wasn't a good reason.Sidney Cole: Did you meet, during the course of your career, any of the people who were on the production side, like Alex Korda, or Michael Balcon or any of these people?Jack Rockett: No - I met Mr Balcon. I did take press shows, press parties d[…]
[…]him and I imagine he wanted to cream off a bit from the firm, but in any case it was marvellous for me because we went to, then, to Publicity Picture Productions, which were in Dean Street I think. No they weren’t, we were in Darblay Street, sorry, in Darblay Street. And of course that mea[…]
[…] Maurice Elvey and Herbert Wilcox. He gives accounts of the production of Victoria the Great and Brief Encounter (1945) and […]
[…] you consider all that's gone into the preparation and the production and the post production of a film, costing millions […]
[…] as Battleship Potemkin (1925). He was involved in Kino’s 1934 production Bread, a short film protesting against the injustice of […]
[…] lot of them. Every day the cans for a different production would turn up. Quality varied enormously but I learned […]
