[…]ost at the rear. It had a, instead of the academy aperture plate, it was a circular aperture plate. And then Technicolor used to make the film of the sky with an airplane up in the sky. And then, of course, that was projected onto the dome to give it a realistic effect that it was the sky. And then […]
[…]an, broke up completely. Also an evening before they broke up at MGM, at another thing with David Charles Creighton and a Flying Picture a man in the sky with Jack Hawkins. How didUnknown Speaker 43:14 he get on with Jack?Speaker 2 43:15 Jack was an enchanting man plus one, a[…]
[…]d. Now it's a terrible, terrifying story that you hear of Russia and places where, shall we say, Stalin's name is obliterated from everything, or Trotsky his name, or his even his picture is taken out of still photographs. But you could have these two very interesting countries where I filmed as the[…]
[…]right. After about another half hour Jack Courteney, an American organist, very good organist rolled in. He had a brown paper bag with a bottle of whisky in it and I could see the flask in his back pocket. I said Mr Courteney, he said who are you, I said Peter Tanner I've just started, would you lik[…]
[…] we made the model set and I actually painted the sky backing for that. That was lovely. I’m very good […]
[…] The first day we couldn't do anything, it was dull sky and every time these expresses came in, the trains […]
[…], again, another steep learning curve. Then there was the thing about this whole thing about at that point, nobody knew what a satellite was, I mean, sky had come out. And the they had 16 channel analogue channels on that. And the of those only five or six were English, because the rest were German.[…]
[…]ed floor you take the paint off very very easily Top of the Pops that with that pans people found that out don't have people dancing when there's dry sky because there'll be slipping or cherry picks all over it because it takes the floor paint I think they got late to paint which was better but at t[…]
[…]nagement in TV stations didn't manage. It was the Unions who did the management for them. So all these changes and also, looming up was the threat of Sky and subscription television and a different model and advertising beginning to run down and all of these things were happening so ITV knew it had […]
[…]o make it at that time with animation rather than uh you know the way they made it.SPEAKER: M12And that was about 1940.SPEAKER: M8Not sure if Jesse Lasky had the line drawings for a while and George Bell and several other people. But no they couldn't raise the money.SPEAKER: M2That's settled the pic[…]
