[…]rove, can't remember his name, anyway I went and found the studio and there they were, they were shooting one of the Aldwych farces and also building sets for Jew Suss and I was hooked, this was what I wanted to do.So I left school and I was more than ever determined that this was at what I wanted t[…]
[…] for Monday morning. The Art Director somehow had to revamp sets and things and you were off, you know, just. […]
[…] things like that. Rodney Giesler: But you weren't near the sets or anything? Dicky Leeman: No, no. But then the […]
[…]d Christopher Barry around and watched him work. And it was terribly funny because with Compact, every scene was set in an office and in TC2, and the sets were quite tiny. And you didn't really have much to do except move them from A to B and to a filing cabinet. And I as a director kept thinking, "[…]
[…]ay morning. You had the casting had got one at the same time so the cast was sort of there for Monday morning. The Art Director somehow had to revamp sets and things and you were off, you know, just. But the amount of responsibility that a First Assistant had in those days was extraordinary.Roy Fowl[…]
[…]rk so he kindly gave me a few days in his office, helping him out with the odd messages and things like that.Rodney Giesler: But you weren't near the sets or anything?Dicky Leeman: No, no. But then the next thing I was working back at Joe Rock's, on this film, again I can't remember the name of it, […]
[…]e in studios that were on top of one another, there wasn't one that was on ground level at all. So that had all the trouble of getting the stuff, the sets up there and you know, so it was quite an operation really. And then it gradually went on very busy all the time until 1938 I think it was or 193[…]
[…]re all on location, we’ll go somewhere together like frequently happens now, but this would have been the studios. I think there’s far more different sets, different groups mixing together and doing things together, whereas now it tends to be the sound, the camera, the sparks. They don’t socialise t[…]
[…] have been the studios. I think there’s far more different sets, different groups mixing together and doing things together, whereas […]
