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BECTU History Project - Interview No. 51  [Copyright BECTU]  Transcription Date: 2002-11-18 Interview Date: 1988-08-19  Interviewer: Roy Fowler Interviewee: Andy (Adrian) Worker   Tape 1, Side 1 Roy Fowler: An interview with Adrian, otherwise known as Andy, Wo[…]

[…]ck and Herbert Marshall and it was tremendously interesting to work through that film with Fox. I was very lucky, in the Summer of 1938 pictures were booming, Fox was making 17 major A films in the studio at once, and a number of B pictures. The lot stretched from Pica to Santa Monica, all the area […]

[…]ipment, for instance, I remember Sinclair Hill that had a tracking shot on 'The First Mrs. Fraser'. In those days, on a shot like that the microphone boom would be stuck on top of the camera. And I remember Gunther Krampf, the cameraman, refusing to allow this to happen. He wasn't going to make any […]

[…] don't have this huge truck any more and this great boom on its own wheels and so on, it's all […]

[…] was very lucky, in the Summer of 1938 pictures were booming, Fox was making 17 major A films in the […]

[…] In those days, on a shot like that the microphone boom would be stuck on top of the camera. And […]

[…]those sequences seemed to be doing quite well because in a studio it was a multi-camera shoot so the lighting was always at the expense of not having boom shadows so the lights were put in various places so it wasn't a shot for shot, it was a multi-camera shoot. [Interviewee knocks over the micropho[…]

[…]t understand half of what they're saying. And they you know, they go into, or big mansions, or they they don't think about baffling it at all, and is booming all over the place.Sid Cole  17:00  I find it interesting to say that because I find in one worries with age or something, that the […]