[…]g lit up. And of course, the gaffer knows the cameraman I mean, you've seen this in the British Jack Cardiff working with his gaffer and pre lighting sets, and he really only have to tinker with the set except for just worry about the artists in the foreground. And in America, though, it really the […]
[…]that period, The Tempest.Jim Shields: Oh yes.Maurice Askew: ... I remember. That was when we first installed our reverb chamber, to cope with the big sets that they had.Jim Shields: Yes.Lionel Strutt: What about the mysterious island one that was around at that time?Maurice Askew: That was a little […]
[…] : Ha Ha! My parents were dead before I came into it, so I had no connections whatever, no. But my mother, you see, had been... she was a very clever artist. I'll show you later something of hers. But she also wanted to be an actress and that's how she lost her money: backing plays to put herself in[…]
[…]sp;long or short as they like. You know we're after India after I did four sets in the fall. I did then. Then Aubrey became head of Columbia at that t[…]
[…]ox : You saw it didn't you?Alan ? : No, I was reading about it, I got it from there.Muriel Box : Yes, it was a lovely cast. I had Cecil Beaton do the sets.Alan ? : Did you ultimately get a West End?Muriel Box : Yes we did ultimately.Sidney Cole : Did you get on alright with that star-studded cast?Mu[…]
[…]n you can't see and you can't get around, as I say, I've got this practical asthma, and it catches me when I don't even know about it, this is what upsets me very much, because there's so much reading to be done about the industry. There's so much to know. My husband's not being attached to the indu[…]
[…] throw from here, worked before the war with Baird and... I can' t think of his name... But he was in at the very beginning, and he used to light the sets at Alexandra Palace.MS. I thought you had something to do with newsreels from therePS. I was on the BBC Television newsreel, and they only had, I[…]
[…]t: Oh yes.Roy Fowler: What are your memories of it in terms of technique, the way they organised it, the way they managed it?Eddie Dryhurst: Well the sets I remember were small.Roy Fowler: Painted or...Eddie Dryhurst: Painted, oh yes.Roy Fowler: But I mean painted flats as opposed to something more […]
[…]s no good — Mr Dean's voice was all over it. It was one of Dean's earliest sound pictures and directors were still used to the idea of talking to the artist while they were performing.Dean was a great theatre director. He was very brusque sort of character. He wasn't very good at doing films. He was[…]
[…] person. (TIME 49.57) But because Casino Royale shoot and the sets and the Art Director, the actors … and Woody […]
