[…]zon outside the village that was built was a small scale Railway, which ran on top of a bank that built up so that all you could see above it was the sky. And that just used to chunk up backwards or forwards as part of the background. And on top of the sound department was an enormous enormous glass[…]
[…] engaged to come up with some storm sequences, or enhancement of storm sequences, which we did, and we did some computer generated water and a lot of sky replacements, putting in for boating, sort of clouds and so on, things like that. Interesting job. I. Good. Darrol Blake 10:04&nbs[…]
[…]rom film – Ring of Bright Water, which we made, again, in 1968 – we have launched, with the two local communities of Kyle of Lochalsh and Kyleakin on Skye, a trust called the Eilean Bà n Trust.[168] Eilean Bà n is the little island which lies, now, beneath the Skye Bridge, which connects Skye with the[…]
[…]at Pinewood, who gave him names of other art directors he should contact.00:09:30 – 00:16:20 He received a letter from art director Alex Vetchinsky at Denham studios and started working there in 1947 alongside Roy Walker; JB was confident working with classical forms; his first film was No Med[…]
[…]hangeover! - We'd just do it with seconds to spare, it was really hairy. And I don't think we ever, ever missed a changeover but it was always this risky business for the first two changeovers of the day in the winter. And of course you had no central heating in the projection room. It was a very la[…]
[…] cameramen, of course, very rarely now work on film because it's nearly all electronic. I think the last series we shot on film was was Reach For The Sky. Although we're still doing film drama, but most of that is contracted now, but again by old Film Unit personnel.Interviewer 24:30 &nb[…]
[…]igious. I mean I kept going to church until I got married actually. I mean, I’m still religious in a way, I mean, I am still a pie in the sky merchant. I think if anybody ever got near what religion was about it was in Star Wars with Alex Guinness, the force be with you, you know?&[…]
[…] quite clearly. First of all I can remember the, the start of the war standing out on the steps with our, with our gas masks up, on looking up at the sky to see what was about to, well because the first siren went I think within hours of the, of the war breaking out. And we went to Windsor, of all p[…]
