[…]gh in my leaving party said that I was probably the person who invented this step up for female staff between the typing pool and the continuity girl production assistant is now called, and getting somewhere more creative. I was nearly thrown out several times the bluerinse, ladies in BBC staff appo[…]
[…]rible spend the wasteful spend doubling up having to aircraft the same time made by two different. Firms and then only one aircraft actually going to production that was so wasteful. So. There was a lot I became very interested also in television at that stage and towards the end of my career at Bri[…]
[…]re, but it was the very first of the independent frame pictures. And it was only really a tryout for independent praying because they were going into production at Pinewood with a very big programme for those days. And that was wonderful. So independent prime is was really just back projection. A li[…]
[…]ut he was, he was, you could go and ask him, and you knew what was wanted. Rodney Giesler 1:57 Can you tell me some of the production designers and art directors you work with and what they were like. And I like stories. No, Gus Walker 2:06 I wou[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]worked very very well. It was a very good system and I enjoyed the. You know my stay there it was a very you know taught me a lot of course about the production side of the floor because before I'd been concerned mostly with the maintenance and engineering side of the plant that this you know obviou[…]
[…]erything else, and the whole look of filming, I mean, news, current affairs, was changing. And then they advertised again for PA’s, as we were then - Production Assistants - which doesn’t mean the same thing nowadays. NS I think it still does, doesn’t it? JG Oh, they, I don’t know, whateve[…]
[…]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 […]
[…] yeah I don't know if he wanted to concentrate more production at Denham, because they had several large stages there. […]
[…] Balcon's brother, Chan Balcon who was then in charge of production at Lime Grove or Shepherd's Bush Studios. And I […]
