Paul Collard Laboratories (Kodak, Kays, Soho Images, Ascent Media, Metrocolor) Interviewers: Sarah Street (SS) & Carolyn Rickards (CR) Date: 06/12/2017 Total Length: 01:30:31 [00:00:00 – 00:03:35 General pre-interview conversation]SS: This is our Eastmancolor project int[…]
[…]rector for films. He worked every conceivable kind of film, though, when I first met him at this time, it is six months in 941. He had offices in 34, Soho square in the same house, that number is basically the same room as a large room in which all throughout an ambassador right, worked on. There wa[…]
[…]married I had children. I had absolutely no employment prospects at all. I finally got a job cutting cutting puppet films for Disney in a basement in SoHo and I got mortally depressed. I thought you know I've of snakes and ladders game as well.SPEAKER: M4In the late fifties we are the snakes and lad[…]
[…]eak about 1949 or something of that kind. And then. So I was out of work for a while. And it will quite unused to he didn't know any other outfits in Soho at all. The Guild was at the bottom end of St. Martins lane and seem to be rather out of touch with everybody else. But then Bessie told me I sho[…]
[…] following. It was a great sort of release, particularly as there's most of the conditions in which we work was so appalling. Certainly around around Soho, awful basements Do you find yourself working in at one time or another? And this was a sort of release. But we were both at Shepherds Bush repor[…]
[…]ess than the motorbike shop, but it was much less traveling involved, and it was a short term thing. So I started working there, carrying cans around Soho, and just usual sort of film running activities, which is very good because I got to know very much who did what in SoHo and where things were an[…]
[…] I was so chuffed to be a professional filmmaker, that for a while I used to go around with my scissors sticking out of this pocket so that people in Soho know that was actually what you were,Unknown Speaker  43:08  what your trade,Michael Clarke  43:09  I was really trapped. Don[…]
[…] never worked with basil, right? No, but we had film shows at the Colonial Film Unit who were in the same house as we were Powell. Signed theta at 21 Soho square. They had Friday night, I believe it was film shows of features or documentaries, and we met Humphrey Jennings there and all the former po[…]
