[…]r and did a little bit of work either as a clever boy. First clapper, boy, the job I ever did. I remember there were five cameras and what on the one set on the one. So I think it was one of the one of the Jesse message fixes. Come with a five cent cameras or with a yes, five, six cent cameras. And […]
[…]p;01:35No none whatsoever. My interest in radio was sparked off at Hurst by a senior boy who was given permission to work on a small valve set, which in those days of course was something very precious and that really sparked off my interest in in radio.Alan Lawson 02:00Um now […]
[…]n. 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 all waiting round the set, waiting.You know, I mean there are things like when I did Princess Bride, the girl starts off with,it’s a red dress she had, it’s just one o[…]
[…] very kind to me, he let me be on the set most of the time, or sit with the sound […]
[…]ow how to do the "ng" bit, you know. But it was sudden, quick, like that. Anyway, actually a marvellous time, sorry to leave it really. But my family settled then in Upper Norwood, eventually, opposite the Crystal Palace. My father was now Chief Engineer for a circuit called the AC Matthews Circuit.[…]
[…]re some of it was shot in the early days.SPEAKER: M1Fantastic. But one film really was key isn't it true that early career when they film that really set me off was that I've wanted to do animation.SPEAKER: M9I used to like to make little models of. So we should at that time it was the La Brea Tar P[…]
[…] sound, and so on, over these years, your technique of set building and so on changes, you mentioned you'd move […]
[…]e of the overhead gantries and running tackle and all that sort of thing, that came with sound studios, we had none of that.Rodney Giesler : Were the sets more like theatre sets in those days?L.P. Williams : Much more, yes, a lot of stage bracing and canvas flats and ... Funnily enough of course, th[…]
[…]ey found out somebody didn’t have a ticket, back in the Union office, and they found out they’d hire a car and go to the studio and take them off the set you know a ridiculous farce like that. But that’s all gone now it doesn’t exist anymore.[00:11:12]CR: I was gonna’ say I’ve not come across this s[…]
