[…] to me, "There's a film being made by a German director called Wilhelm Tiele who directed some films in Germany...this […]
[…]e companies and a trillion Did you ever do any work?Speaker 1 12:24 The only thing I ever did and that was long long ago was a bit of moonlighting I can't remember the name of the studio I was gonna say Grafton but it wasn't you know I did there was no more than about four or five days i[…]
[…]mething went wrong, you see, so the second one which, and that was the one which, the first one which was all right, was me alone. So I was the first director. Tim Aymes 18:54 Films still exist, Stanley Watkins 18:57 I don't suppose so. No, I had[…]
[…]f you wanted anything, you got it alright. There were no problems at all. I found the Directors and, I think, the staff, I mean there was one chap, a Lighting Director called Hugh, Hugh McLeod? I: McLauchlan, yes. R: Hugh McLauchlan, on the show and he nodded to me a few times and I didn't[…]
[…]ightly higher, you would go out with an Electrician as well just to make sure that it was properly lit and, if you were really lucky, you would get a Lighting Cameraman like Jim Peters or Malcolm Campbell or someone like that so you could, on occasions, go out with a three-person crew! I would have […]
[…]tudios, there aren't apprenticeships in production areas, their apprenticeships in engineering, I've yet to see an apprenticeship in sound cameras or lighting. In studios. Yeah, because I think we were doing one here, which is aUnknown Speaker 43:28 broadcast sound. Oh, got a joint one b[…]
[…]hought how to answer this question, but I will try now. It's a valid one. I think they felt that, that they wanted to retain the support of the Shell directors, which was forthcoming, the freedom that they gave to the film makers. And it was complete freedom, really. They wanted it to be free of any[…]
[…]now, looking at the BBC, and so on, you know, and in those times very, very difficult to get into TV, you had to have a union ticket. And most of the directors who were working at that time came through something called a TAPs scheme, they got first class degrees at Oxford, or Cambridge, went into t[…]