[…], tell me if it's funny." So they shot one take, he said, "Is it funny?" They said, "I don't think so." He said, "All right, shoot it again!" And the cameraman was having nightmares, because the thing was rocking like this! So they made a second take and he said, "Is it funny?" They said, "Oh yes, y[…]
[…] the ACTT History Project. The Subject is Angela Allen interviewed by Linda Wood, November 27th 1990, File 168Honorary Member of the Guild of British Camera Technicians (GBCT) and was awarded the MBE (Member of the British Empire) in the Queen's New Year’s Honour's List in 1996. Film titles are[…]
[…] what did that involve? L.P. Williams : Well, designing new camera cranes and things, for seeing that the things that […]
[…]en I got a job with an American filmmaker called Alan Forbes. Alan made documentary films. He was in London and he taught me about editing, and about camera operating, and about sound, and basically was a very committed filmmaker. And, God, I was lucky to work with somebody who was so inspirational […]
[…]ut not very much.Rodney Giesler : Were they more three-dimensional than before?L.P. Williams : Well, yes it became more elaborate you see because the cameras became more mobile and cranes were introduced and dollies and things which they virtually didn't have with silent pictures you see.Rodney Gies[…]
[…], and that was the first time I had worked. I'd seen him before, but we Freddie young came down there to take over for a week. Well, they got another camera man, because they got rid of borodiel, he was the camera man, and he told them he couldn't do the things they wanted with a small generator. An[…]
[…] time wasn't it? Because, how sensitive were the mikes in those days?Peter Birch : Oh they weren't too bad at all, the trouble was noise you see. The cameras weren't properly silent, so they had to be put in a booth, and that made it awkward for them, and of course you were never allowed to get the […]
[…]nterrupted by breaks in the tape. It is unclear whether this is the due to censorship or to the recording being paused on site.)Desmond Dickinson (DD)Camera, DirectorBECTU No. 111Interviewers: Ralph Bond (1963) (RB), Kevin Brownlow (1972) (KB)05/07/1963 and 30/07/19723 Tapes Interview with Ralp[…]
[…]don Hales 26:39 he would go out if he had to make a film about one was concerned with agriculture. Then he will go out with his favourite camera man, they had some very gifted young caravan, Jonah Jones and Henry Fal under a lesser extent Fred Gammage, he would go out, shoot his stuff an[…]
[…]and a half years, three years. Iwould like to say that there were interesting relics from the past in the COI, there was JimmyDavidson who had been a cameraman and a famous cameraman and he had now relapsed into beingin charge of technical appliances and there used to be a little drinking school eve[…]
