Len Lawrence Laboratories, Technician, Editor (Stoll, Humphries, Technicolor)BECTU No.81Interviewers Alf Cooper (AC) & Alan Lawson (AL)Date: 12/04/1989 Side 100:00:00 – 00:03:58 Introduction; early life; schooling; 11 plus exams; first job in a fruit shop; working in an ironmongers.00:[…]
[…]n between the two races, but of course poor old black Sambo turned out to be very much the underdog .SC: Years ago I interviewed Paul Robson for Cine Technician and he talked about that picture and it wasn't so much he didn't know what it was like but he hadn't realised, he was beginning to realise […]
[…]o go to MGM Studios at Borehamwood and they offered me a job there as an assistant dubbing mixer. Well MGM proved to be fairly disastrous for British technicians because very little happened. MGM Studios started with a couple of cheap pictures Edward Dryhurst produced one called The Dream of Olwyn –[…]
[…]learn really the hard way by doing.Speaker 2 2:49 Yes, I've taught myself in the world, butSpeaker 4 2:54 were any particular technicians, if you like, who helped you along? I don't know.Speaker 2 3:01 I don't know. I don't think anybody has ever, no, I don't, I m[…]
[…]and perhaps the directors, would want to work all hours of the days and night, and perhaps not in the day, only in the night, the other staff and the technicians had to fall with it and wait at the studio all day while they were perhaps waiting for one of the stars or directors who wouldn’t turn up […]
[…]tures that you know of, observing them, being made.VG: I think so. He was terribly rude to actors. But it was like daddy being rude.RF: How about the technicians, was he equally rude to them?VG: No, I don't think there were any problems. I think they just accepted him for what he was, what he asked […]
[…]GC : I entirely agree with you. And I'll tell you something else which I find in our business which gives me tremendous confidence, and it is a J the technicians – what ever field you go, Cameramen, art directors, I come into contact with all of them, they are all professional, they're all experienc[…]
[…];not the best hotel, butRoy Fowler 13:17 reasonable. Yes, what would a per diem have been in those days. Any idea, what did, what did the technician survive on?Unknown Speaker 13:34 Or, I suppose we would be in the neighborhood of the 30s a week, 3530 75Roy Fowler 13:42[…]
[…]nstance, that worked together, directors and cameramenwho worked well together, and a good crew that... Because it doesn’t matter how goodthey are as technicians, you need to have the rapport between them that they canunderstand each other and work well together, it’s a good thing. I think that’s it[…]
[…] unique in that you were previously a member of the NUJ? I mean, other words, did you see yourself as a journalist and other people see themselves as technicians? Or did people all think themselves journalists and filmmakers? No, ISpeaker 1 22:38 think they were all film. I mean, well, P[…]
