[…]d it for black and white film, well it was no good for colour. Because then, although you still couldn't use white, you had to have various tones of 'Technicolor grey', which was murder to get. Everything had to be dyed this very off-white, and there were four different shades of that. And you had a[…]
[…]ty thousand...John Legard: Really?Pat Jackson: ...which was a lot of money in those days. And it was to be, you see, the first feature documentary in Technicolor. Well, that was fine! Now then, we had to cast it. How were we going to cast it? I needed about eighteen chaps in the lifeboat, of whom th[…]
[…] funny really because, then Pat asked me to photograph 'Western Approaches' which was the biggest film they'd ever done, and in colour. I hadn't done Technicolor - this wasgoing to be my big break, you know. Unfortunately my first wife was expecting a child, which she lost, so I had to go back home,[…]
[…]s 99% shot in this country.SC: Did you go to the States.CC : NOSC: Did you get a credit.CC : Yes.AL: We were talking about the trick work in ThiefCC: Technicolor had just said the tricks that Alex used, flying carpets, horses galloping in the sky, all this sort of thing, they just said it was imposs[…]
[…] where we lived...one Ron Hague, I don't know whether you know Ron Hague? You would do, probably, if you'd been around the laboratories in the past...Technicolor for many years. Anyway, that's his history, but he's been a longstanding, very valuable member of the industry. And I went to work with hi[…]
[…]nbsp;44:21 can't remember his name, and he was back in Joe, yes, and so they said we could do a test in Westminster Abbey, because one morning, Technicolor with Jack Cardiff were going to do a test, and they said we could shoot one at the same time. This was a three strip.Unknown Speaker […]
