[…]d tin mugs - er enamelled mugs, so I used to get a tray and bring these back. It was delicious, I used to love it! And the other thing that we had on special days was, we used to buy a thing called Tikky[?] Snacks.Alan Lawson: Oh yes.David Robson: They cost thruppence each and it was...Alan Lawson: […]
[…] 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[…]
[…] and editor. He also became adept in the use of special effects, and these featured prominently in his directorial debut, […]
[…]oint.SPEAKER: M18Here it is these these were cinemas sorry they were cinemas and one had been a legit theatre in the past but the other was. It was a special cinema so I became very much the film fan and the other important thing was when I think back to it the manager of the of the Regal Cinema in […]
[…] I must say, I think it's very important to go to a great school. Because you do make it your friends, sisters, and so forth. And you can do things, especially in a large city, in the evenings on the weekends with people who have complained in boarding schools strikes me as responsible for a great d[…]
[…]ts killed in the Tiger Moth was the one model shot we had in the in the film was the actual crash of the Tiger monster, which was done by by a model especially faked the actual crash itself, the Tiger Moth sequence David even had a camera up in the plane set in the wings so that so that he could he […]
[…]hting gantries too. Anyway, there was serious, a whole lot of machinery that was very effective. And also some of the projectors that they acquired, especially those triple head machines, you know, all that, of course, actually was to be used later on in a much more selective way. So it did enable u[…]
[…]could come up with many! I could come up with many! There was a wonderful Hogmanay show once, live, and somebody had the bright idea to bring on as a special guest Hercules the Bear. Now, I don't know if you remember Hercules. Andy, I think, was his owner, was the name of the owner. He was quite fam[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
