American Cinematographer - January 1984 - 49

Members of the
crew

did double

as actors

banquet

In India I had at my im¬
mediate further disposal, one
arri nc camera in 120 blimp, re¬

cently overhauled in the uk, as a
back-up camera, five Berkey-Colortan double broads, and some
very old iK and 2K quartz lights.
Further lights were said to be
available from the local film stu¬
dios in Hyderabad, which was our
principal location, subject to their
own requirements. There
in fact, plenty of juniors, but

owners

were,

only

inkies at
all. We hired a generator locally
which, not being designed es¬
pecially for film use, was extremely
noisy, but amazingly never broke
down and held the cycles very
a

few babies and

no

duty

in the

scene.

I should add

for those
dian film

not

a note here
familiar with the In¬

industry: Although there
large and relatively wellequipped studios in India, making
what is now the largest annual
are

number of feature films in the

world, they

nearly all shot al¬
most entirely in the studio, and
there is thus no pool of free-lance
technicians with experience of
sync-sound location shooting. In
the last

are

decade, however,

a sec¬

ondary industry has emerged,
making mostly serious social sub¬
jects and shooting largely, if not
entirely, on location.

On our second day of
shooting the starter circuit of one
4K hmi burned out, and after that
one

or

more

hmis was

al¬

of action, thus squeezing

ways out
our

of the

minimal

resources

even

Lassally surveys the
graveyard scene in
Hyderabad as Ivory
checks

a

composition.

fur¬

ther. Fortunately,
lack in modern
spare parts,

what the Indians
equipment and
they make up for in

ingenuity

- someone even sat up
for countless nights rewinding an
hmi transformer by hand! More

serious, though, was a breakdown
of our bl, which one day refused
run in sync and couldn't even
be switched off. This forced us to
shoot with our back-up camera

to

well.
Madhur

All the

imported equip¬
ment arrived safely and on time
(mainly because it was on the same
flight with us!) and shooting was
thus able
was

to

start

working with

British

crew

come

back

and

on

a

was

some

Jaffrey

with the
the

women

palace in the

Durbar

scene.

schedule. I

mixed Indianhappy to wel¬

familiar faces

with whom I had worked in Ra¬

jasthan four

years

previously

on

Hullaballoo over Georgie and Bon¬
nie's Pictures. All the grips and
electric crew were Indian, as was
my

second

camera

as

the lUawab's mother

assistant, him¬

self a cameraman in his own right
in India. I can express nothing but
admiration and gratitude for the
whole-hearted and devoted co-op¬
eration of the entire Indian crew.

January 1984

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Cinematographer

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