Ted Hallows

[…] was at that particular time, yes. AndUnknown Speaker  6:28  there was, well, itUnknown Speaker  6:30  was Besche Lemon. He was a camera man, yes. But Stan pavers focus puller. Monty Bourne was focus puller, yes.Unknown Speaker  6:39  Tubby Englander was focus puller in[…]

Geoff Labram

[…]that happened. So I've continued in that position until the present day, although the title has changed a couple of times. And after a few years, the camera department of the studio which had been headed by Bert, Easy that Bert Easy. I think he retired and then like Alan Wadley abruptly diedand that[…]

Peter Sargent

[…]hose days was three pounds ten, and I got five shillings a week.DB. So did you look at the various things going on on the set and decide that being a cameraman was what you wanted to go for, as opposed to the sound, or stage management, or something else?PS. I never took the slightest interest in an[…]

Freddie Young

[…]to ask for a job, in photography, and was told to start the next day in the laboratory working for Harvey Harrison; after a year, Harvey took over as cameraman in the studios so FY was left in charge of the laboratory; FY talks about processing film in the early days using frames; after a year, the […]

Mickey Hickey

[…] that, so D. P. Field now needed a new sound camera operator. So anyway John Aldred was given the job […]

Colin Flight

[…]ation that was related to the scenes that they were doing, if there was anything wrong, we would promote the fact that “There’s a hair in the gate on camera 4 on that shoot with the 5 cameras”, “That one there doesn’t look good” or “There’s an issue with your lighting” you know. I think it was First[…]

Michael (Mickey) Hickey

[…]hearsay, I knew nothing about Pinewood!" "Well" he said, "you've got to go off to the Great Central in London, you and about ninety-nine others, on a cameraman's course." This is how Pinewood got me. A cameraman's course was a War Office posting. Your regiment could have no say in the matter. So any[…]

David Watkin

[…]il had a small film unit for training under Waterloo which worked outside the union until the railways were nationalised; DW mentions Basil Sangster, cameraman; DW’s first job at Southern Rail was to catalogue their archive.00:12:00 – 00:23:30 DW moved on to British Transport Films, where he started[…]

Elizabeth (Liz) Bale

[…]So you didn't sit beside him and do it. He just took your script and Elizabeth Bale  24:48  Well, you see, we do the sort of camera script and the links for the other film inserts, but his commentary was always on separate piece of paper, and there was no auto queue in those[…]

Mat Irvine

[…]vant. Interesting after work in the photo library for news originally. I think the qualifications were, do you know what a photo is? Well, I've got a camera. I think that basically got me in. But it was a time for Apollo and because I'd done a lot of modelmaking of Apollo craft, and Apollo 12 came a[…]
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