User:Jackpigou

There is no entry in Wikipedia for the B/W movie directed by Jimmy Clavell entitled 'The Bitter and the Sweet'. I know it exists as I worked on it in Vancouver in 1961. The film had a very chequered start, the original footage being legally and properly impounded by the film laboratory entrusted with its processing. Funds for the laboratory were not forthcoming. Looking on the internet I see it credited as being shot in 1967 but this is incorrect. I was in the Technical Department of the processing laboratory at the time. Shot in 35mm B/W and using a Nagra sound tape recorder with a sync. track, the sound was then transferred to magnetic stripe on the 'rushes' and synchronisation achieved by the simple expedient of amplifying the sync track to power the Bodine hysteresis 35mm. recorders during sound transfers. The action was set principally on location around Vancouver and on Sea Island (where the local Chinese community grew their special greens) with some in-house shots for various effects. When it was all over and 'in the can' there was the usual cast and technical crew party in an hotel on Georgia Street (if I remember right).