[…], horses galloping in the sky, all this sort of thing, they just said it was impossible and wiped their hands of it so they had, Alex had a very good special effects man called Ray Butler, and he solved the problem for them. But according to Technicolor the picture was impossible.SC: Technicolor wer[…]
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[…];Where there were systems using optical feature cards, and 80-column punched cards, and combinations of 80-column punched cards for which the IWM had special machinery developed by ICL. ICL was going to be England’s big answer to IBM, and effectively, I arrived at the IWM, with David Penn as the Hea[…]
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[…]quite honestly people are very well paid indeed in large parts of the industry, if you compare it with what documentary rates were up until recently, specially if you worked for anationalised industry or something of that sort, which...Basic rate, yeah.Kitty Marshall Page 46And paid the rates, […]
[…]RP Studios. What in general were working conditions like?Eric Cross: Well, it was pretty much the same as at Twickenham really. We worked all hours, especially with a director called Dupont, who made the first Moulin Rouge and he wouldn't start directing until about eleven o'clock, you see, because […]
[…] about people if they strike me as human beings as special. And so everybody to me, whether they're Kings, Queens, […]
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[…]arlie in Italy which was I think probably Ray's best and that was Jason and the Argonauts yes. With the skeleton fight which was a brilliant piece of special effects work with Ray right. Yes absolutely. Because you see Ray's system that stock frame system worked on things like skeletons. It's like j[…]
