BECTU History Project - Interview No. 88[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2002-01-18Interview Date: 1989-05-23Interviewer: Alan LawsonInterviewee: David ProsserTape 1, Side 1Alan Lawson: The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. David Prosser, Newsreel cameraman, late[…]
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[…]talian dialogue and I had the picture, they gave me a film and we did the spotting together with Lew Watt and the measurements and I used to type the script. We had the film, we had the print which used to run on the two sided thing. And Lew Watt was working all the day so we had to do this at night[…]
[…]round the edges but pretty rough to begin with I don't think there was any doubt about that! I: And you were on camera as well so you learnt the scripts? R: Well, the problem was the scripts were written by Eddie Boyd. I have to remember names and Eddie Boyd was a brilliant scriptwriter bu[…]
[…] really very, very frail. And he, he did the whole film in a wheelchair fine. It worked for the story and he was a professor, which was fine. And the script called for him to shoot Christopher Lee and disable you can do it from the wheelchair. Got a problem? And Karloff, how can I kill a man sitting[…]
[…]silly, unsubstantial thing about nothing very much, except it was supposed to be about spies in France just before the war. But it was really a jokey script. And er, above us – real history was being made, with these fighter pilots who were defending Britain, and in fact succeeded in beating the Luf[…]
[…]wards, we won them at the same time, the BAFTA Awards. We rarely work together, only at the end when we made two films in India. And we did some... a script on something else and Steel. But apart from that, we, he was science and technology, I was more general films, educational, whatever. Rodn[…]
[…]the costume often has to be re-pressed or something like that does it?Well, yes. There’s also the thing, you know, your heart sinks when you read the script and there’s rain. You think, how many costumes are we going to need for this, you know,because you can’t take it away and dry it and have them […]
