[…] Terraneau... Alan Lawson: Yes... Cyril Pennington-Richards: ...who I bought a camera off, fifty pounds, and we started. He had a […]
Alan Lawson, CameramanCopyright ACTT History ProjectSeptember 1987 Interviewer, Arthur Graham Arthur Graham: Where and when were you born?Alan Lawson: I was born in Gidea Park, a suburb of Romford in July 1912, we moved to London 3 years later.Arthur Graham: Whereabouts?Alan Lawson: […]
[…]nk Sainsbury, Ruby Grayson, John Taylor, Donald Taylor was one of the producers. Shaw Alex Shaw, who else was there? Well, George Noel was one of the camera man and Harry Rick Noel, who perished during the war. Was there? Ruby Grayson, too was bombed on a ship going to the States. That is John Grays[…]
[…] the right moment, there was movement going on at the camera department, I think David Lean had gone out of […]
[…]remember one particularly awful experience where they had thought Saltley Baths could be used on a drive-in basis for the outside broadcast unit. The cameras would be brought in the the the swimming bath would be covered with a floor and all of us would roll into this and and I had to interview the […]
[…]quite a thing in those days. I'm talking about 1934 or something like that, maybe 33. I got terrible interested in that and he gave me one of his old cameras, a 16mm Bell and Howell and that's how I started to be interested in cinematography. I made a sort of school newsreel. I talked the headmaster[…]
[…] all about that or if you were on the sound camera you were tucked away in another room. The only […]
[…]nbsp;encouraged me. And in a very short time I was working on one of their cameras. You. Know doing announcements for like. Teas chocolates will be served at fo[…]
[…]ad learned in the article. The article at that time certainly had no courses in photography at all. But Brandon Stafford, who was himself to become a camera man, he was really interested in films we were both moderately active in the in the Irish Film Society. And Brendan, Brendan was very keen to g[…]
[…];I did a cycling holiday just before my 14th birthday uh I bought my first camera in a little town of Bon on the River Rhine one pound thirty of white[…]