[…]7So you learnt everything, cutting room work and? Sarah Erulkar 18:21yes, RG: all the sort of boring jobs. SE: And they sent me to an army projection school. Goodness knows why, but I went to learn how to project films with a group of soldiers down in some obscure southern suburb. And thi[…]
BECTU History ProjectInterview no: 467Interviewee: Phyllis DaltonInterviewer: Rodney GieslerDuration: 01:33:42 & 00:25:48 (total 01:59:30)COPYRIGHT: No use may be made of any interview material without the permission of the BECTU History Project (http://www.historyproject.org.uk/). Copyright of […]
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 […]
[…]see? I was thankful too, in the evenings, I mean it's evening-work, you know, so I could work in the studio in the daytime, you know. So I was relief projectionist and part-time manager - stand out the front, you know?Rodney Giesler: Which cinema was this?Larry Allen: Oh they called 'em the 'Coventr[…]
[…] Independent Frame things, which were, I think it was Dave Rawnsley, the art director. He brought this idea of no sets, everything was done with back projection, so that except for furniture it was all just pictures. And it took ages to light, it really did. I always felt it would never be a financi[…]
[…] for getting DW the Blackpool films; DW mentions working on Scotland for Sport with Ken Fairbairn; DW’s regular assistant was Jack West, who had been projectionist as Saville Row.00:32:35 – 00:40:50 Holiday shot on 16mm Kodachrome, reversal stock has almost no latitude; because the Kodak lab changed[…]
[…]utter. So that was the strict rules. But obviously one was strapping the camera down, but nowadays of course one doesn't. Not that one does much back projection anyway, because nowadays you get on low loaders and you don't do, you don't even do blue backing, just do it straight.Alan Lawson: Do you t[…]
