[…]ntury-Fox, which was given at the old Chaplin Studios in the center of Hollywood—a huge picture of really sensational quality. At the same time, Warner Bros. opened up, about March 1953, with their first 3-D film, House of Wax, in Eastmancolor. Still a “B” picture, but well-made. And, again, ex[…]
[…] art director, or not every other but all bar three, would have been full of suggestions as how to get it right. The only suggestion I got in Collier Warner was is him biting his nails down to the knuckles, and it really did look better. And I turned to him said, Colin, that looks better than this. […]
[…]n, so if you were a focus puller you saw yourself as an operator and then lighting cameraman, in the States, especially those working at say Metro or Warners, they were very content to be a camera operator all their working lives, so you had 60 year old operators, marvellous at what they did and tha[…]
[…]was very little technique involved in that. Again Sammy was making these for New Era who were handing them to United Artists had one of them, I think Warners had one of them, this was filmmaking really at its worse. It was £1 a foot. And on that particular film it was alleged, I don't know how true […]
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[…] them to United Artists had one of them, I think Warners had one of them, this was filmmaking really at […]
[…]mall fashion I suppose and it grew. There was no question we covered the whole industry. I think the only people we didn’t cover at the time was Warner Brothers, but even here Warner’s would occasionally say ‘Well, come on in’,because we were, you developed a kind of expertise.Y es.You, you kne[…]
[…]nt characters and to survive. America ... who is that great actor? Paul Mooney. Now Paul Mooney survived in America by becoming different people, for Warner Brothers, wasn't it? I mean, it's almost impossible. Almost impossible. And in Britain, of course, Alec Guinness has, and Peter Sellars has.&nb[…]