[…]e hotel rooms on the floor in a in a rehearsal room, and we, we basically blocked the whole thing. We spent the week before we shot with the with the lighting, camera man, vit old stock, and, and we, and we worked it out and, and the designer was Gemma Jackson. I mean, it was a fantastic team, and t[…]
[…]. So that's the way it went, you know, so, um, but it was, it was employed a lot of people. I think one of the strangest things about it was the, the lighting was always a problem. I mean, the form the photographic side, but it was so heavy the equipment and we had all these electricians, you know, […]
[…]er months, late spring months. Ernest Maxin 42:27 However, once again, a continual learning process and I learned my lighting for shows from a man called Robert Nesbitt, who was a very good lighting designer in the West End theatre. And however Where did I get to? Wh[…]
[…]t it, Archie Mayo directed it. Now remember on an exterior scene - because I was always anxious to get out on the set because I always wanted to be a director, not a writer - he had a big, high tower and it swayed in the wind. And Archie was a tremendously fat man and got dizzy very easily. So he we[…]
[…];they set up. I mean I remember John and Benny Lee setting up their little lighting and their lighting explains who they are. Benny leave a couple of a cou[…]
Charles Bennett (screenwriter and director) 2/8/1899 - 15/6/1995 by admin — last modified Aug 25, 2008 11:11 PM BIOGRAPHY: Charles […]
[…] And it really is marvellous in the film now. No director in the world except Houston would have taken that […]
[…] was agreed that, yes, if I'd like a job, I could have one. And there at the queens, that was really the smallest Show on Earth. It had gas secondary lighting. So every, every afternoon you lit the mantles after the show, you put them out. There was a circle there. And every morning, you had to spra[…]
[…]cene, because everybody else was busy as the third and I really screwed it up. And he tore a lamp off me. And later on in my career, I used him as my lighting cameraman on a couple of my movies. And we always laughed about that moment, but he was a great he was really a great cameraman. Very clever […]
