Alf Tunwell – Transcript

[…] returned to newsreel photography in 1929 at the newly formed British Movietone News, and during WWII he joined the Canadian Army where […]

Norman Fisher

BECTU History Project - Interview No. 101[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: Unknown - draft analytical transcription by Sarah Easen, British Universities Film and Video CouncilInterview Date: 1989-09-25Interviewer: Roy FowlerInterviewee: Norman FisherTape 1, Side 1Roy Fowler: Copyright of the foll[…]

Norman Fisher

[…] Transcription Date: Unknown - draft analytical transcription by Sarah Easen, British Universities Film and Video Council Interview Date: 1989-09-25 Interviewer: […]

A A "Alf" Tunwell

[…], Side 1Ralph Bond: This is a recorded tape interview with Alf Tunwell. ACTT member of very long standing, and pioneer in the newsreel section of the British film industry. Alf, during your, almost a lifetime in this industry, and particularly in newsreels, you must have seen an enormous number of c[…]

John Cotter

[…]knowledge, in about 1927-28 to Pathé and was a camera man for Pathé Gazette and then, whensound started, he joined Fox Movie Tele-news. Now, or then, British Movietone is. He went tothe States to learn the technique of sound coverage and came back, continued to be their ChiefCamera man until about 1[…]

Leonard Harris

[…] PM BIOGRAPHY: Len Harris trained as a Cameraman in the British Kinematograph Society’s course at the London Polytechnic, Regent Street, […]

Jimmy Wright

[…]cript has been produced automatically using Speechmatics.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of the content of this interview.However, the BEHP wants t[…]

Leonard (Len) Harris

[…]eft school then?Leonard Harris: Oh yes that's right, well I always wanted to get into the film business and just before I was due to leave school the British Kinemograph Society arranged a course at the London Polytechnic, Regent Street, you know, for kinematography. A two-year course it was, every […]
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