[…] chemicals, how to do chemical analysis, all this kind of stuff is what I was involved in. Then in ‘74 my boss Paul Read left Kodak to become the lab director at Kays, Kays laboratories in Highbury, and six months later he said “I’d like you to come and join me as a technical manager. I need that so[…]
[…]re buckling up their belts to stop their sore backs and they're talking about the football and all that and in they come with all these flats and the Lighting Director, "Oh no, you can't come in! I'm still doing the rigging!" There's all that banter and, you know, there's a pile of stuff and it all […]
[…]nto film production properly," see? Well a friend of mine who is a big noise in the film world - later he was - he was then, and his father was a big director in Gaumont-British. And this friend of mine, we were young, almost kids together, I knew him well and his name was Hughie Orr, and if you get[…]
[…]ist of every function, every grade that we could think of, or anybody could tell us about the works in the film industry. So it was everything from a lighting camera man to a focus puller, to cable basher, to any any arcane name. And we tried to find out what that name was and what its function was.[…]
[…]on't quote me on spy 60 twos 24 hour 24 hours by platform. Right? All six bits, that's about 20 feet. These are six piece they're borrowing together. Lighting scaffolding for the life, and you had to go out there, we had to put it together. Yeah, that so for that. Anyway, so most of us have actually[…]
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