[…]lard]This is a British Entertainment History Project interview with Carol Owens at home in Ealing. The date is the twenty ninth of November 2017. The camera operator is Steve Brooke Smith and the interviewer is Paul Collard. So Carol thank you very much for making yourself available for a British En[…]
[…]bsp;Yes. Mm, just switching to, mm, a slightly different topic here. Mm, by 1999 at least there seems to be a change in focus of, it had been back of camera up until roughly that point but at some stage you were interviewing also people front of camera, mm, and there is mention of that in the commit[…]
[…] Rupert used to, in fact Rupert Davies who played Maigret used to rely on me to because I used to really hand feed him. I would draw up a little tiny camera plan of the sets for him so he knew where he was going in the, in the actual studio.He wasn’t very hot on the lines I believe?No, he wasn’t, [L[…]
[…]Williams 2:22Yes, I was cutting room assistant dead cutting room assistant for some months. But having shot Hadrian's Wall with a 16 millimetre camera, I was able to shoot as well. So a job turned up which involved two years in Aden in the desert, covering an industrial project, and of course,[…]
[…] es.And the London studios were working.Did they have editing rooms and things like that?Oh yes, indeed, we had cutting rooms.Y es.Oh absolutely. And camera rooms we used to go out on opticals. Oh yes, we, in fact we used to work for other people too.Y es.But we had, we had optical rooms, animators.[…]
[…]there, to get there and even in the middle of the show… [15:02]This was actually being televised, yes. Well, it was being… Were you on camera? I would have been, had I been round there, but in order to avoid climbing over this thing these blasted, one of these blasted union mania[…]
[…]us Station and I said no, I'd rather do Petticoat Lane. So they agreed that I could do Petticoat Lane as a little tiny short essay. And I went with a cameraman who was very famous in those days, Tubby Englander and I knew in my heart of hearts that I was auditioning and they were going to ask Tubby […]
[…] went to Hampton, which was Hampton grammar school. And in this, just before the school holidays, 1928 I was offered a job as assistant to the stills camera man at Whorton Hall. And I said, Fine, you know, this was for the school holiday period. And I went over there on a Saturday morning, and found[…]
[…]s were they printing, mm, mm, a married, from a married neg, [Pause] or was it, was it a mute neg? [Pause] [0:20:00 189] See at one time the newsreel cameras going back a long way...25No, I don’t know.The pictorial newsreel camera had a sound head on it as well didn’t it?[OI] Yes.And you printe[…]
