[…]Tatler Liverpool, the Tatler News Cinema in Liverpool. That was, I see, on the 13th of January 1952. This was the first public cinema anywhere in the world to show polarized 3-D projection. The cinema screenings were a great success. Surprisingly as it may seem, our program of 3-D shorts broke […]
[…]t of carry on with Jack Cardiff until I got back. So I said, "Well that's rather silly, because Jack Cardiff is the best Technicolor cameraman in the world - it just doesn't make sense." And Pat and I were great buddies you know, almost like brothers in fact, and I said, "Forget it - get on with it […]
[…] because Jack Cardiff is the best Technicolor cameraman in the world - it just doesn't make sense." And Pat and […]
[…]p;would I like to be an assistant cum driver to Maurice Brockman [?] his name who was a New Yorker who was filming all around the world for the crew and doing all the publicity shots. And I said “yes, lovely.” So, I met up at London Airport. He brought ou[…]
[…]hers, Chan, of course, who was a regular soldier to all intents and purposes and had been to university and fought with some distinction in the First World War worked for Mick at Ealing and indeed before then at Gaumont. And it's quite amusing that there was I understand at the old Gaumont &nb[…]
[…] Suffolk. My father was a retail chemist. My mother, as was General in those days was a housewife mother. And I have a very early memory of the First World War, because quite clearly, I can remember my father opening the window in the bedroom, in which they slept and I as a baby with the role of a Z[…]
[…]ns bombs. If you were at Pinewood how did you obtain these effects.John Aldred: On True Glory there was nowhere you could get sound effects of Second World War in action so myself and fellow ACT member Peter Handford were dispatched into Northern Europe with a portable Western Electric channel to re[…]
[…] there was nowhere you could get sound effects of Second World W ar in action so myself and fellow ACT […]
[…]ney release of GREYFRIARS BOBBY, which had been on the Playhouse’s split, he had used his position as a town councillor to coerce Disney to stage the World Premiere at his Caley Cinema. The trick having worked then probably had emboldened MacLauchlan to do the same dirty on the Odeon just after I st[…]
[…]tly to the despair of my father and mother because that was that because my father who was very good man but he thought Had no connection to the film world and thought it was rather fast. And he was a scientfic frame of mind, but much more of a third and I went into some sort of other professi[…]
