[…]ual conference during Ted Heath's reign, which would be about 1973 wouldn't it something like that? Yeah, when the house prices were going out of the sky. And as a minor personal triumph, the General Counsel deputed me to move a resolution which was really purely a political resolution about house p[…]
[…]ake the picture. We did that and he loved the test. With all their reflections, quite often their faces were quite wiped out by the reflection of the sky. He said that's it. He got on the phone and cancelled at the back projection equipment. That was the sort of person he was. That's the way we did […]
[…]ou believe it? Now that was - what picture? Mara Loseff and Jack Buchanan in - and I've forgotten. Lee Garmes, yes [chuckles]. [NB. The film was 'The Sky's the Limit'] Who else? Well of course, Carol Reed did 'Talk of the Devil'. I didn't work on that, oh no. 'Talk of the Devil' or 'A Man With Your […]
[…]ave Them' and a Kenny Moore picture about Bader... Roy Fowler: Oh...yeah I know the one you mean, I don't remember the title. [NB 'Reach for the Sky'] What's your memory of Val Guest as a director? Andy Worker: Very efficient. He had his little board up with his drawings of the set. All th[…]
[…] for everything else.DB. Was using day-for-night very common in those days?PS. Oh yes... it' s difficult because the way you do it... if you show the sky it' s got to be blue. If you use a road, you've got to have very powerful lights shining out of windows. It was very necessary not to show anythin[…]
[…] use an ordinary just give a false reading. So I read the sun or the daylight with it, yeah. Well, the sun at that dual altitude, and when it's clear sky and everything isUnknown Speaker  21:41  just under 20,000 foot candles. In fact, if you read the sun now today, it'll be aboutSpeaker 2[…]
[…]rojection didn't exist in those days and the effect was got by a long distance cut out which was pushed across the studio floor very slowly against a sky background and in the near distance was a succession of prop men going round and round the camera breaking order so it didn't appear to be the sam[…]
[…]to that.Fowler/Lawson: Did you have anything to do with Sidney Box at all?Bill Girdlestone: Oh, yes. He liked me. He gave me a bottle of whisky for a picture I did for him, which thoroughly upset the Rank people because he hadn't distributed any bottles of whisky to some of them, you know,[…]
[…]nything wrong. I was mechanically as good as the machine I thought and we made dozens of films like this and the actor would sing away up against the sky and I suppose Mr. Parkinson had a cinema somewhere where the whole system was reversed. Where there was a turntable connected to a projector and y[…]
[…] decades; among them such varied titles as Reach for the Sky (1956), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Alfie (1966), Educating Rita […]
