[…] film over there and I collect the report in the morning and I'll never forget the report the report was a printed form which at the top would have a production number and so on and the name of the film and then we had to printed the headings and then a long white space underneath and the two printe[…]
[…]gure - and also of course the North America figure (and other global markets) - the Studio hierarchy would decide to green light some of their future production slate as they knew (with reasonable accuracy) how much revenue would be flowing in from their current films out playing in Cinemas. Th[…]
[…]t he paid you.VG: I honestly don't remember but I would have thought if I got £50 I would have been very very lucky.RF: And this was taking the stage production, the book of the stage show and adapting it.VG: Yes.RF: Did you stay with it for the shoot?VG: I was in it, I played one of the juvenile bi[…]
[…]rst film and he decided to shoot it all on location within reach of the theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon because the actors were sometimes engaged in a production in the evening. I don’t know how that was possible because most of our shooting was at night being A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but anyw[…]
[…]r as he and I was concerned, of doing this picture in Manchester, was a difficult picture, the Rosman Johns thing so on. And I introduced Tony Keyes, Production Manager. And Michael came up there. I did a whole, did the rewrite where every, almost every damn thing, Noel Roberts was casting. And, you[…]
[…]friends happened to know Leslie Parkin, who at that time was with PFF, one of the joint managing directors, and arranged for me to go and see him.PFF?Production Facilities Films, which was the holding company for the Rank Organisation. I mean all the artists weren’t under contract to the Rank Organi[…]
[…] and arranged for me to go and see him. PFF? Production Facilities Films, which was the holding company for the […]
[…] I hardly remember that one now. [laughter]But again, apart from that you were still contemporary designing weren’t you?Yes, yes I was.No big costume productions?Yes, no big costumes, no. And the first one I did on my own, eventually, I don’t knowhow I got it because after all, not many people knew […]
[…]room at Shepherds Bush in lime Grove. What was the central loading room? Well, that was in those days I've been Shepherds Bush usually had about five production six production guy. It was like a film factory really the central low room. So it consisted of a background on the front room. And in the f[…]
