Billy Williams - Filming the climax of the wrestling scene in 'Women in Love' (51/172) скачать в хорошем качестве

Billy Williams - Filming the climax of the wrestling scene in 'Women in Love' (51/172)

To listen to more of Billy Williams’s stories, go to the playlist:    • Billy Williams (Film-maker)   To listen to more of Billy Williams’s stories, go to the playlist:    • Billy Williams (Film-maker)   Born in London in 1929, cinematographer Billy Williams shot more than 40 high profile films throughout his career, being nominated for an Oscar for ‘On Golden Pond’ and ‘Women in Love’, then winning the Oscar for ‘Gandhi’ in 1983. He received an OBE in 2009. [Listener: Neil Binney] TRANSCRIPT: We went off to Switzerland and... for a couple of weeks and shot in the snow. Whilst we were in Switzerland the editor put the scene together and when we came back Ken looked at it and he said: ’We've got to do some more wrestling’. Well we were no longer at the location in Derbyshire; we were in London at a small studio at Merton Park, where we had a few close scenes to do, a few scenes on small sets, and we had to match the wrestling because Ken wanted to shoot a sequence at high speed — 72 frames a second — of the... of a.. the kind of climax to this wrestling where, instead of throwing themselves around all over the floor, they came into very close physical contact and they were kind of embracing each other at the same time as they were trying to... one was trying to force the other to yield and fall to the floor. And we shot it at... at 72... all I had were some matching flats and a couple of candelabra and the original rug that we had on location. So we matched it just really by... by staying close and matching the lighting style. But, of course, I had to use a lot more light because instead of shooting at 24 I was at three times the speed; I needed another... stop and a half. And when it's cut together you... you don't see... you don't realise there's been a cut and... and it finishes with them falling down in close-up onto this rug and it's at 72, and then cutting to a wider shot, which was at the original 24, as they fall apart, and the cut works; absolutely great. So it's one of... it was a scene that caused a great deal of controversy. In fact, the film should have been released by the Rank Organisation but because of this scene and... and various other scenes of love making, which were quite sort of frank and revealing for the time, Rank refused to release the picture, and so in England it went out on the... the other circuit, the ABC circuit.