[…]ard to deal with when you’re not confident. But nevertheless, he was brilliant, you had to recognise, and he was fun. It was wonderful to work with a director like that. Cecil Beaton did the sets for The Winter’s Tale.[15] So every aspect of it was quite superb, really.JR: And it was a sort of ‘onwa[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]ams. And who else was at the last reunion, how many people Yvonne Littlewood who was a contemporary of mine, and some of the very early producers and directors, I'd venture to suggest that possibly, I'm one of the very few who is still working. Joyce Robinson 17:09 I[…]
[…]working on the production. So, to me, the most important person in any feature film or any film at all, really is not the director, it's not the, the lighting camera man or whatever, it's the editor.Howard Lanning 1:27:08 Well, people do say that, and you can't understate the the value o[…]
[…]day of working that don't have to lick the film. scrape it off with a piece of hacksaw blade. And I in years after I remember, was working with other directors. One in particular who was a well known documentary director, who used to lick it first off you both know who he was, what you would d[…]
[…] know, whether 1 Sir Kenneth Barnes (1878 -1957) was the director of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) from […]
[…] who afterwards became an agent and Alex Bryce, a Scotch director. I was still in my digs but we used […]
[…] gone into before by you - but I mean it was near the change when documentaries were structured because they had to be, because of the equipment, and lighting, etc, etc, to the more newsreely, or vérité type of films when you interposed much less between camera and subject. So we shot this thing, an[…]
[…]a go at the battle and i made the mistake of into cutting the charge of the french knights with the preparations for which was vetoed out of hand the lighting camera was outraged intervene with his lovely tracking shot and in fact whereas you may remember the premiere that shot drew applause.Intervi[…]
