[…]as quite interested in stills photography as well so I used to read the photographic magazines. And I was quite interested in the colour and colour reproduction. It’s interesting I always remember the remark in one of the magazines where they said “If you shoot on Kodachrome it makes your garden loo[…]
[…]t all this stuff, and nobody ever uses it. And that he actually had the grace to send a memo to the head of film department about what I had done was production. So that offset some of the careless mistakes from time to time,Simon Rose 43:07 apart from the technical stuff. I mean, how ab[…]
NB This is a resume only.John Box (JB)Production DesignerBECTU No.463Interviewer: Rodney Gielsler (RG)Date 09/12/19993 Tapes Side 100:00:00 – 00:09:30 Introductions; born 1920 in England but moved to Ceylon; father couldn’t get a decent job after WWI so he worked in a number of remote areas of […]
[…]n the meeting room of the British Film Commission, at 70, Baker Street in London, and the interviewee is no less than Miss Erica Masters, a legendary production person in our industry, sadly not living in this country any longer. I have the pleasure of doing the interview, my name is Sydney Samuelso[…]
[…]sonalities afterwards.Roy Fowler: There wasn't a permanent company was there?Joan Kemp-Welch: No, no.Roy Fowler: These came in for the production...yes?Joan Kemp-Welch: No...and we did The Hairy Ape by Eugene O'Neill, was one of the plays in which there was George Merritt and Pix[…]
[…] to say that at the age of 29 I was Production Designer on it". Fortuitous: first Brian Thompson then John Clarke […]
[…] wouldn’t of course change the quality or anything of the production but, he was thinking of things being shot in […]
[…]bsp; Danzigers, small studio, cheap productions, revamped sets, but opportunity for TAS to progress quickly09:22 - […]
[…] other than secretaries, make up, wardrobe and I wasn’t interested - and hairdressers - I wasn’t interested in doing any of that. I wanted to go onto production, especially after I had been in documentaries for three years. So he took me on as a ‘runner’, and I was quite happy about that and John Cr[…]
