[…] shouldn’t have known any of that if I had done that.What happened, the journalist I'd been working with wanted me, she knew somebody who was down at Sound City, Shepperton Studios, they wanted an experienced typist and she wrote to me and said wouldn't I go for an interview. So I said I don't think[…]
[…] contained RF : So everyone is doubling up, by the sound of it, on discipline LK: Yes, everybody did something, […]
[…] Goodness knows actually. I've forgotten quite honestly, it was a sound camera anyway but ... Alan Lawson: I know... John […]
[…]cutting room and that was being worked on, liaising with production and the other disciplines as well. You know when the film was finished you do the sound track-lay and when the transmission print came back from the laboratory then just making up the rolls to, ready to go to telecine. So well, lots[…]
[…] I mean, you never built sets that they were building madness, I thought really but but because the gear was so heavy, the camera gear and indeed the sound problems because the sound was all on on film, it was you know, optical sound. So we had a sound track if you went out which was rows of convert[…]
[…]ely self contained or did you get English crews?LK: No we were entirely self contained, entirely self containedRF: So everyone is doubling up, by the sound of it, on disciplineLK: Yes, everybody did something, I think I wrote, and sometimes produce, Derek was executive producer and Cenkalski produce[…]
[…]yes.Alan Lawson: What camera where you using then on that type of thing?John Turner: Goodness knows actually. I've forgotten quite honestly, it was a sound camera anyway but ...Alan Lawson: I know...John Turner: I hardly ever used a sound camera.Alan Lawson: NoJohn Turner: I mean, I knew the mechani[…]
[…]y fond of each other at that stage. And he introduced me, he was a dentist and he introduced me to a patient of his who was a cameraman at Crown.Who, sounds very interesting.Yes. And he actually talked to me about the whole documentary film movement, and this stirred up a great interest in me at tha[…]
[…]ng I did. He died when I was quite young sadly, but I don't think he ever came to see any performance of anything. And of course I was really without sounding pompous, or showing off, I really was very very famous as a child, because I did so many charity shows and so many professional shows when I […]