[…] reel from optical; you occasionally combined two takes or something but it had to go through in one run, rather than as it is now.RF: Were there any special problems with post-syncing?WR: Well, just this. It wasn’t as common anywhere as common as it is nowLH: You could, [but] you were pretty hard d[…]
[…]out to learn the business, and I became everything! I was assistant to Laurence Irving in the art department, I was a camera assistant, I did all the special effects. I made the first cobweb machine in England and er - as I say, I'm almost a sort of one-man unit.Roy Fowler: Right. Vernon, all t[…]
[…]us that homo sapiaNS: was a liar, a cheat a bigot, a coward. A materialistic greedy bastard and really wasn't worth two penn’orth of coldwater especially if you're British and especially if you're a cockney.NS: Mm.DMW: So, we invented Alf Garnett. We did a flight over Wapping in a chopper [a h[…]
[…]films for sending overseas, there was a British Council publicity, I think acquiring films, that's the thing. [00:19:12] Acquiring and I suppose special versions of them were sent, my job was still various kind of assistant office jobs. [00:19:23] One interesting young chap who was there w[…]
[…]e in many ways one was terribly free, but in other ways one was terribly restricted. But I was very happy there, the awful thing was, once I became a specialist, which you became after you've taken school certificate, I really didn't work terribly hard. And I remember, I took school certificate, I'v[…]
[…]sp;identification you know trying to read the photographs although that was a highly specialized job well that's kind of navigation. Well I went really from the point&nbs[…]
[…]a that was it did it have a stop motion presumably it didn't have the early one didn't have a stop motion right. But finally I got a hold of a simply special which had a built in step one frame so I could get even exposures and this is 60 M.. And this was 16 millimeter years and I still have that ca[…]
[…]d I left that council school at the age of 14 very happily being extremely anxious to get out to work.Q: Eh, did you, you obviously, did you have any special training after that? Did you take...............SAMUELSON: Nothing, none at all.Q: Nothing. Um now er before talking you know more about you u[…]
[…] it was a very muted film, there are a lot of browns and it’s not as expressionistic as the previous film. Can you talk to us a little bit about…were special techniques employed for that film?PS: I don’t think any special techniques were employed for the film at all. The look of it would have come f[…]
