[…]Yes.Not these great, there was no photocopying, and the way the plan was copied from the designer to go to the scene master, the property master, the lighting engineer was that the girl, I, would do carbon copies.Yes.You know, you’d actually go all round the thing with a pencil, no Biros just yet, B[…]
[…] actually a camera man. I was paid as an assistant, even though I was permanently employed, more or less. And then when I did some actual shooting or lighting or whatever, then I got paid the minimum rate of the camera man,John Taylor 32:56 the daily rate.Paddy Carey 32:59 No[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]The BBC because I’d actually been around for quite some time. I think occasionally you would find little sort of pockets of resistance. You know, the lighting director whom I eventually got to know quite well who, you know, we had terrible arguments. I won’t say what his name is.Oh go on.It was John[…]
[…]ys have a piano on the set. And when we were getting ready for the next set-up, once he'd worked out what he wanted to do, he used to leave it to the lighting director and me to get on with the job and he'd go and play a bit of Chopin or something until I said, "All right Walter, we're ready." And o[…]
[…]tion!" Of course I was petrified. I went to see Mr Berman who was - on that picture Bob Baker was producing and directing and Monty was producing and lighting. So I went to Monty and said, "Look Mr Berman I'm terribly sorry, we have a problem. The Italians have said that if we don't give them double[…]
[…]rve the Rib Room it’s puddings and deserts.” So, I said “You can’t. You can’t stop now in the middle of this.” I said, “I’ll delegate the lighting man to serve the Rib Room.” [laughter from all three]. So, the Rib Room were getting their puddings served up by the lighting man form […]
[…]Stoll's. Because Clifford Pember was away doing something, I had to show Freddie the set, and ask him if there was anything he wanted altered for his lighting and that sort of thing. Freddie, at that time, had been ten years in films, and I had been about a month, or six weeks. But anyhow, we got ta[…]
[…]n Dines who was was the How do you spell his name? IsStephen Peet 9:45 it d yAlan Izod 9:46 no d i n e. s. And Gordon was the lighting cameraman from Ealing studios who was who was really a very great professional. This is interesting because I think To some extent, there was[…]
[…]age. You were there with maybe a reflector or things like that and a theodolite in the early days but things bumped up a bit in scale so you would be lighting maybe interiors, maybe night scenes, and you would tend to, you would tend to try and make the interiors look as natural as possible as far a[…]
