[…]really good actor Dirk Bogarde was . Having been in someof those Gainsborough potboilers, very successful ones a film like Hunted gave him a bit more scope.CC : At that particular time he was absolutely fed up with playing sneaky boys in mackintoshes. There he was in the same part he felt at the beg[…]
[…]ing James Joyce's Ulysses. And he worked on that. ISpeaker 2 13:33 believe that's right. I was camera man on that. It was an early cinema scope, film black and white. And in those days, we only had supplementary lenses to the standard to give you the anamorphic effect, and we had quite a[…]
[…]ion after all and that was a disappointment. Another interesting film was Knights of the Round Table and that was the very first one we made in Cinemascope. Robert Taylor was horse riding again with sword and lance, and Elizabeth Taylor not far away. At this time, it was 1952, film laboratories coul[…]
[…] glass out of the blimp or you couldn't get the scope lens on so the entire picture was covered in […]
[…]ut and my brother was a bit upset I was more upset than he was. And I caught my father saying to him, if you're a very good boy, I'll give you a pathescope, which was a 9.5 patheescope projector for your birthday. Now I knew George wouldn't be interested because he got out with he's got to have a ra[…]
[…] contract! So that was that. So we designed the first scope system for television. What else did we do at […]
[…]g for that - the run-through and everything. It was really fabulous that. But the great breakthrough came about a year later when we were to do CinemaScope. It required major changes. We'd had new equipment by then. As you know it was four-track stuff.Alan Lawson: Yes.David Robson: And so we had new[…]
[…]nce then of course magnetic on film has gone on from one thing to another it led quite early on actually to the possibilities of the sound for cinema scope all of a sudden we will into stereo and that was a major upset because that meant that our theatres had to have a major re-equipment when all of[…]
[…]our expansion drive was that we still had funds left over to buy an anamorphic lens for the new theatre to allow films to be presented in their Cinemascope ratio if they had been so shot. This expansion plan was continued by Graham who took over the reigns after my joining the Commercial Cinema Indu[…]
[…];disabilities which was a truly good idea and so we were able to widen the scope of the Mrs. Beatty of. Neuro to. It was not really a big charity. Sor[…]
