[…] director general manager. He wasn't he was the managing director. He was managing director Bill rule was the studio manager. And of course it was in lighting this was 1960 beginning of 1960. Is this pre or post Bentley. This is pre bent treatment events. Right. So I went down. Bill role was a chara[…]
[…]ard Lester at Viking Studios all using reflected light; Lester asked DW to work on The Knack and light the film the same way; DW believed that direct lighting looks artificial and takes longer to set up; DW’s technique required more lights but less set-ups which saved time; DW talks about his work o[…]
[…];of the other technicians of course Jack Cardiff and Jeff Unsworth were the two lighting cameramen. And Harold Hazen was the technician that I worked mostly with. An[…]
[…]was an expensive studio to run. The stages themselves were interesting. I can remember it was the first time I'd been in a film studio where they had lighting gantries suspended from the roof. If we'd done that at Shepperton the roof would have caved in. All the lighting at Shepperton was built -up […]
[…]you. But interestingly enough, I’d applied for it that ticket, ACCT that’s right, as it was in those days. And I got all of the smart people like the lighting cameraman to sign my form and I got rejected immediately of course. The second time I got all the lower people… who was the one union bloke t[…]
[…]aw and do shoot - and  (stutter) we shot it - at the time no problem - and they loved it - and it looked greatQ: Yeah - well it’s better for the lighting isn’t it!01:52:05JOE: It’s better yeah! Exactly because you can light each set up (laughs) lovely but yeah they loved it - (interviewer: um -[…]
[…]he Rialto somehow, although there was a lot more to do, there were stage shows, you had some amateur night on Saturday, so spot work was there, stage lighting was there to a certain extent, but only in a very limited sort of way. It was not a Granada - they said if you could last the week at a Grana[…]
[…]id get a better dialogue track. Then along came microphones with much more gain so you were able to come away from the artist a bit more so the lighting cameraman would light a bit more and say Don’t worry that microphone has got a big gain we will push you out a bit more before we get the mic[…]
[…]first one also where I learnt to smoke a pipe. Jack Lee smoked a pipe and I thought that was the thing to do. So I got a pipe and made the mistake of lighting up for the first time in the middle of the Channel of course and I turned as green as the water. It was er - it was an extraordinary experien[…]
