[…]ed window, streaks of silver paper. And Dave and I think Bunny Frankie between them had to devise a new way of being able to photograph this on radar screens. And they eventually found out, with the aid of Kodak, and which stock they could use and so they Sorted that out.And the other thing which I'[…]
[…]ngs just broke down.Yes.And you will remember the transmission card that would go up.Yes, yes.You know, and, and a little picture would be put on the screen.Right.But the thing that always made me nervous was the introductory music when the picture of the tower came up and the mast.And Alexandra Pal[…]
[…] It gives me great pleasure to present to you this tribute to an of my father Humphrey Jennings, who would have been 90 this year, the tribute with a screening of three of the outstanding films he made in England during World War Two. Firstly, an outline on my father's life, thought and achievement.[…]
[…]t very nice reviews and they didn't have a prize at that time in Edinburgh but it was the featured production, being Scottish of course. And we had a screening up there for all the miners who'd worked at the mine where the disaster - it was very much a documentary, to go back. I mean Montague, again[…]
[…] and, and a little picture would be put on the screen. Right. But the thing that always made me nervous […]
[…]wood.” I said “Of course I am! Big joke, big joke.” And what had happened was that while I was in New York doing Girl in My Soup, I was asked to do a screen test for a film and it got very exciting, and on a Sunday I was flown out to Los Angeles to meet the Producer, and then I did the screen test i[…]
[…]t Key to do anything other than what he wanted to do and in fact he was fired, Jenny was fired, you know it was difficult to actually get it onto the screen. PB-C: That’s right, yeah. DB: I don’t suppose you have any memories of that? PB-C: I just remember Robert finding it rather dif[…]
[…]was thrown in at the deep end. And commercials were very high powered fast, you know, very fast. And I remember there was one kind of showing, we had screening. And the producers asked for something that was left in the cutting room. So I dashed back, I remember dashing back and the and the roll fil[…]
[…]etic, interested that was not the same intelligent interest in the cinema that was just curiosity and fascination. With the with this with the silver screen. No, America was the place par excellence and the extremely relaxed attitude of the American police and all sorts of officialdom to the filmmak[…]
[…]experience because he was quite unlike anybody else there. Watt was a kind of weak bully, Holmes was a gent, a mixture of - as I think I said in that screening - a mixture of Barry Fitzgerald and Jack Buchanan. And Jennings was way out on his own, he was so in love with making movies, with pictures,[…]
