[…]part of a camera team. You then got the experience, but you'd had all the background to start with.Interviewer 3:16 Do you think that the production techniques changed from the time you started to the time you became qualified within the BBC, taking on a senior position?Michael Aldridge […]
[…]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 […]
[…]d that was it. Your food was laid on and the food was laid? Yes, yes, they organised some food, but it was award terribly crude. And if it was a good production, the food was alright if it was a bad production, like, for example, Mother Riley, it was sandwiches or something like that. Anyway, I got […]
[…]which was a year later, I joined the Cambridge University's Mummers and the ADC and my career as a director took off. My first significant production for the Mummers was Ondine by Jean Giraudoux and it was a huge hit. I'll never forget that John Tusa played the Knight, the eminent John Tu[…]
[…]the thing as it is.SPEAKER: M8When I sit down and look at some of these films even mighty Joe Young or some of our later films I did with Morningside productions. You say if I don't take in ten minutes more I could have made that scene much better.SPEAKER: M1But I think you owe it to me. You always […]
[…]te different now, I think.[2]JR: And were you beginning to feel the urge to do drama?VM: Well, Heron’s Ghyll was quite well-known for its Shakespeare productions, which they did once a year in the grounds. There was a most huge and wonderful copper beech tree and they floodlit that area. We used to […]
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[…]oup, which was really, I went there for training when I was younger and then I joined a group, and we did Midsummer Night’s Dream. It was a good production, wasn’t it John?JPH: Yes.DS: And I played Puck in that, as an adult.Well, Puck I can understand, but The Tempest would be a bit o[…]
[…]signed to Henry the fifth. And I spent the remaining seven weeks working on Henry the fifth.Interviewer 17:39 That was they were still in production and there wasn't post production.Geoff Labram 17:42 None of this was post production, that the term post production, if you rec[…]
