The Elstree Project returned to Los Angeles this week!
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Posts about our film interviews in California, December 2013.
The Elstree Project to present their work to the BECTU History Project
Tomorrow morning Bob Redman, Howard Berry and University of Hertfordshire student George Nicholls are attending a meeting of the BECTU History Project. BECTU (the Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union) runs the largest oral history project in the world related to film and television production and post-production, with over 650 interviews recorded since the History Project began. The trio will be Continue Reading
Interview excerpt: Walter Murch recalls Michael Sundin’s Performance as Tik-Tok
Here’s a nice mid-week treat for you all – a five minute excerpt from our interview with Walter Murch. Walter directed Return to Oz for Disney at Elstree Studios in the early 1980s. Michael Sundin, who was the World Trampolining Champion at the time, was cast to perform as Tik-Tok – actually physically operating the robot character from inside. In Continue Reading
Walter Murch and our Return to London
It’s 15:30 at San Francisco airport and we are just having a last team meal before our flight. This morning, we had the honour of being guests in the home of Walter Murch – the Oscar winning editor of Apocalypse Now, The Godfather Trilogy and The English Patient. Walter spoke to us for over an hour about his time directing Continue Reading
San Francisco
We are now towards the end of our California trip; the last part of which has been spent in San Francisco. The City is beautiful and we are in the heart of town in Union Square. It feels very Christmassy too – a giant Macy’s Christmas tree overlooks an outdoor ice skating rink and there are beautiful lights everywhere. Tomorrow, Continue Reading
Joe Turkel and the Griffith Observatory
This morning we all traveled to Santa Monica to the restaurant Jack’s on Montana. They were the very generous hosts of our next interview – actor Joe Turkel. Joe played Lloyd the barman in The Shining, and has the honour of being only one of two people to have appeared in three films directed by Stanley Kubrick. Joe was wonderful Continue Reading
We met Spielberg?!
Well… that was absolutely nuts. Now I’ve had time to recover and look back on yesterdays interview I thought it’s best to write a quick blog post! The day started off nice and early. I was still questioning whether not I was asleep, waking up to clear skies and warm sunshine in December was rather dreamy. Around 08:30 we headed Continue Reading
Sightseeing
Today we have a free day so we’re off sightseeing around Hollywood! We’ve decided to be typical tourists and go and see the Hollywood sign and the walk of fame etc. So expect lots of pictures later! Still can’t believe yesterday actually happened, just driving through universal studios and up to Amblin Entertainment you could feel something special about the Continue Reading
What a day..
Today we woke up very early to get to our first interview.. with Steven Spielberg! I don’t think any of us can explain the excitement/nerves we felt when driving up to the gates of Universal Studios! After receiving our passes, we travelled through to the wonderful Amblin Entertainment where we were guided through to the magnificent screening room to set Continue Reading
Amblin
Here’s a quick photo of the team in the screening room at Amblin Entertainment, where we filmed our interview this morning! Everyone was lovely and they were so kind and generous.