[…]Stoll's. Because Clifford Pember was away doing something, I had to show Freddie the set, and ask him if there was anything he wanted altered for his lighting and that sort of thing. Freddie, at that time, had been ten years in films, and I had been about a month, or six weeks. But anyhow, we got ta[…]
[…]s was?Tilly Day: That was two famous dancers were dancing there. You had an awful lot of men around didn't you, in those days? I mean there were lighting blokes, you know...Alan Lawson: Hmm, electricians all around the rails here...Sidney Cole: Yes.Tilly Day: Oh, an awful lot the[…]
[…] around didn't you, in those days? I mean there were lighting blokes, you know... Alan Lawson: Hmm, electricians all around […]
[…] I was working to Sid Bonnet, Percy Strong was the lighting cameraman. Arthur Graham: You say you were a number […]
[…]pstairs” We used to have policeman who say “Hello, hello, what’s going orn he-ar” [Laughs] I thought “cor blimey”. Happily, there were enough liberal directors about who said “the cockney kid’s the real Mccoy” you know.McG: Tell me about your parents. Why were you brought up by your granny?HF: Becau[…]
[…]ys have a piano on the set. And when we were getting ready for the next set-up, once he'd worked out what he wanted to do, he used to leave it to the lighting director and me to get on with the job and he'd go and play a bit of Chopin or something until I said, "All right Walter, we're ready." And o[…]
[…]ey liked the idea that I was at Unity Theatre ‘cos they were quite left wing themselves and it was a co-operative and they took me on as an assistant director! TD: Do you remember which year this was? AY: No, I can’t remember years at all. TD: 30’s or AY: […]
[…]ame from ICI he he was a chemical genius with colours and what because it was flipping camera was you know the blue backing and also the sodium lighting. We did the sodium lighting as well. Yeah. George Ashworth built in built the camera and I helped develop that. Does one of his crew think Ma[…]
[…]e lights in the valley, and borrowed a few rags of blankets and things like that. The first was normally post out came back, I took responsibility of lighting the fire and failed. We were limited to cigarette lighters and matches and extremely wet wood. So we all huddled into one bed, pulled everyth[…]
[…]t ship, how they were serviced, how they were looked after and how they were rescued and everything else, and it covered the whole field, which meant lighting depot ship workshops, lathes and metal shops, and this sort of thing, with a couple of photo floods, mirrors, daylight - you name it...Alan L[…]
