[…] Year. Well, of course, it was set in, it was supposed to be Hogmany in the steamie, you know, and again, in fact, funnily enough I went to a special screening of it about two or three years ago while Marius was still alive, in fact! I got him to come with me to the GFT and I thought, 'What's it goi[…]
[…]e you at the time.SPEAKER: M5You know just single the fact with these creatures no longer existed. And the fact that you could see them moving on the screen was astounding. It's hard at time even though you know today it's considered a bit of crudity but at the time it was one of the first animated […]
[…]ns and greens, and dull colours. And you looked at a Danny Kaye film, from Hollywood or something and it was like a paint box, you know, flew off the screen. I thought, ‘well they are all Technicolor, why aren’t they the same?’ And it was when we came to restoreThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp&nb[…]
[…]o go that far. There was the Ionic in Golders Green, and of course the Everyman in Hampstead I used to go to. I joined the BFI. I used to go to their screenings. They had a tiny cinema at their place in Great Russell Street on the top floor.John Legard: What year are we talking about now?Rodney Gies[…]
[…] through a dear old friend of mine, Henry Blyth - who was one of the film critics on the Times, later on - brilliant chap! [NB: could be Henry Blyth, screenwriter, b 1911, who was co-writer of Jackson's Seven Keys in 1961 - is this correct?]John Legard: Henry BlythPat Jackson: Henry Blyth. He got a […]
[…] because they had a system of showing stresses on the screen, using a special kind of light. It's so long […]
[…] for the first time, put ordinary people talking on the screen. And, um...I can remember we'd go out, old Jonah […]
[…] for the first time, put ordinary people talking on the screen. And, um...I can remember we'd go out, old Jonah […]
[…] (School of Art, Media & America Studies, University of East Anglia)  Screen costume has now been firmly established as a worthy […]
[…]lex art projector. Complete was transformer. This was sound film, by the way, a Mercury art rectifier, Mercury art fitter, an Iron House non sync and screens of varying sizes. SoSpeaker 4 22:16 you had one projector, you were able to run air short films or long films with a break,Speaker[…]
