[…]rast projection but, for TV broadcast, the preference was always for a low-contrast print which, conversely, if you were to project that in a preview theatre it looks flat and uninteresting but gives you the best option to get a good picture out of on transmission, on telecine. Modern machines are m[…]
[…]of Life and Death, I did have a ride on that staircase. Yeah, it was just before the war started and the staircase was coming down into the operating theatre where they all came down and they’d got the book you know and they run it and my dad worked there obviously and he said “Come on Nibbs” go dow[…]
[…]ee Ken Nelson, he’s your grader and contact man” and that’s it, you deal with him. So he would grade your film and you’d come in and you’d sit in the theatre with him and go through your film. Whereas, at places like Rank and Technicolor, then it tended to be the contact man who dealt with the grade[…]
[…]blocks for the Printing Industry and we also did Industrial Commercial Photography, Fashion work, Theatrical stuff because Glasgow had quite a lot of theatres even in the mid 1960s, Mail Order Catalogue work, Portraiture - all that stuff. So I trained as a photographer with them. Then, I was becomin[…]
[…] which was designed to BBC standards with PPMs with Janet Fields with all the bits you would expect to find in an actual broadcast studio. They had a theatre with proper lighting rigs, big Rank dimmer panel and two tape machines with splice-ball edits. So, as well as the entertainment system where t[…]
[…]oxications". It was during a time of dictatorship in Argentina. I was in this play. And I think quite often people write about me and say, I began in theatre, but it was just this one, really bonkers performance. And I was arrested briefly along with everybody else. And it suddenly felt that I'd tak[…]
