[…] that you would be able to write a song, a special song, for San Quentin, a little bit like Folsom […]
[…] to a Bell and Howell he used to have a special little viewer with a piece of film in it […]
[…]et to know of these things. Obviously Technicolor was really the first system that was useful for producing colour feature films without all the hard[special] apparatus that you needed for the other early types. And therefore it was at the leading edge of making colour films. However, the big proble[…]
[…]ience. So I suppose I was copying what I had seen in war zones. Having said that there’s some amazing operating, there’s some amazing visual effects, special effects, and acting. Roland was no fool, he made those films. They’re his films. I mean, of course, Bruce Robinson wrote the screenplay and he[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]ers no longer bother with given the extra cost and the fine grains of Eastmancolor, Fujicolor, and Agfacolor.00:38:40 – 00:44:30 SS has moved between special effects, lighting and operating; he has more work as a travelling matte consultant; SS’s first break as a lightning cameraman was a documentar[…]
[…]uctive working on that series. And of course, we used to do our own animation in in house, because we didn't have time to send it out to a house that specialised in. So we used to use high contrast stock and, and, you know, do our own animation. So that was quite instructive as well. Something I had[…]
[…], yes, you can imagine what it’s like now withthe highly sophisticated commercials that are coming out as well, it must be a lot worse.With all these special effects.Yes, yes.AL: I can remember somebody in, been in commercials was saying about these highpowered salesmen who come down from, from clie[…]
[…]London with the Ambassador and I transferred to the Head of Chancery, the First Secretary, who was sent to Italy, to Bari, to try and deal with SOE – Special Operations Executive – who were a bit out of hand and giving gold to all the wrong people, like the communists in Greece and the communists in[…]