[…]he film; Challis moved on to work on his own project End of the River so SS took over his job on Black Narcissus; Jack Cardiff took more chances as a cameraman than most; SS found operating the Technicolor easy; not much parallax in the Technicolor camera; the camera operator in those days was part […]
[…] should have his applause. So Signor Gobbi is standing there going 'hah'... 'hah'...with his nails, you see - polishing his nails on his arm. And the cameraman doesn't know what to do, because - and I am screaming, "Tell Fistoulari to start the orchestra!" you see. And so the cameraman switches onto[…]
[…]e. And the film department, you can't do that, it's too, too long, you cannot do it in one day. I said if there is good preparation for it and a good cameraman he can do it in one hour. Because only one shot. And Tubby Englander, a great standby and co-worker, apart from Peter Sargent, did it in one[…]
[…] something rather personal that might - one difficulty with Bob was that he had this almost Greek tragedy link with his brother, Jack Asher who was a cameraman - but the slowest cameraman ever and quite ruthless about it being slow. All our budgets went over for one reason and one reason only, that […]
