[…], Frank Cresswell and Cyril Wilkins, Sammy Sampson and John Brockbank. And Paddy Rigg and I were allocated to sound Frank and Cyril were allocated to cameras, and they became dolly pushers. And Sammy and Brockbank went to telecine to start off with, with Newman, who was in charge of telecine, Sammy […]
[…]rs as it were from the age of five was the the total fascination of movies buying amateurCine world hiring movies getting hold of a little Cine camera which I was given when I was about 12 a secondhand one by my parents. Really it was 9.5 I think Pathe Moto camera BAlan Legard 12:38 &nbs[…]
[…]name ?) '4711' Cream for hands - my hands were used and...everything like that. This went on for ages and I learnt the industry slowly, you know. The cameramen interested me...there was Phil Ross, Lesley Everley, Bert Ford.Sidney Cole: Oh, one of the Fords, yes?Tilly Day: Old Bert Ford, ye[…]
[…] that, so D. P. Field now needed a new sound camera operator. So anyway John Aldred was given the job […]
[…] I liked about it were the stories from behind the camera. They always gave you a list of films in […]
[…] photography. Sidney Cole: You mean, how many turns of the camera? Tilly Day: Yes, how many to count back. Because […]
[…]ly needed to go and earn some money so I had to leave. Got as many part-time jobs as I could and, eventually, saw in the Glasgow Herald an advert for Camera Assistant in the Educational Television Service. But it was coming up in eighteen months time. The same advert was also looking for Lab Assista[…]
[…]as the turning point really - the turning point in my career00:08:28 there was that - er - they took a program from America called ‘Candid Camera’ 00:08:43 and - er - this was as you’ll probably know this was Jonathan Routh was going out and - er- involving people in jap[…]
[…]sed to cost threepence in those days.Rodney Giesler: Also it wasn't a total film fan magazine. What I liked about it were the stories from behind the camera. They always gave you a list of films in production, and I thought I'd love to get round a studio and see what's happening. So I looked at the […]
