[…]nd equipment which is magnetic, a magnetic attachment, so that's a magnetic track on the side of the film. I was going to work, we were mixed up with United Press at Movietone half the time and I was going to work with the United Press still cameraman who was going to operate the Auricon and I arriv[…]
[…]mber. Maurice always claimed that the fee that he received for "The Path of Glory" enabled him to buy a steamship ticket taking him to the United States where of course he became the most successful Shakespearean actor in the United States during that period. [LAUGHTER] And Maurice, I’m d[…]
[…] of the shot he stops VT, he then moves the artists and scenery and everything and gets it ready for […]
[…] I was going to work, we were mixed up with United Press at Movietone half the time and I was […]
[…]to take this Vinson with a blimp. On the trains in the blackout. On my own. I'm about 17 18 to meet the units in Port Glasgow, and the film was about artists in wartime. And staying at Port Glasgow in this terrible sort of guest house was Jill Craigie, who was directing the film, charming youn[…]
[…]t to do is extend production time for thirty minutes in the studio. And when the director comes to the end of the shot he stops VT, he then moves the artists and scenery and everything and gets it ready for the next shot. We restart and edit and you edit all the way through like that." So we did it […]
Side 1Alan Lawson.The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project. Gerry Humphries, sound recordist, dubbing mixer, managing director of Twickenham Film Studios. Interviewer Alan Lawson. Recorded on the 21st August 1995. Side one.Now, first Gerry when a[…]
[…] on the Papua New Guinea independence film in 1974, which was a joint effort between the Australian Government the Papa New Guinea government and the United Nations. Now that was an extraordinary film. And I worked with 12 crews, I think in the field on that it was a major experience. Then I left Sy[…]
[…]f day. And so it started way back, Sunday Bloody Sunday. And when Midnight Cowboy was such a success, I was offered big pictures and at the same time United Artists who backed it said what do you want to do next. I said I want to do Sunday Bloody Sunday. They said what's that. So we sent them a scri[…]
[…]k it means that you actually responsible for all the television coverage in the United States on behalf of the BBC. If a religious program wanted to do somethin[…]
