Teddy Darvas

[…]hing I got very interested in photography. I was always very keen on photography. So I eventually, for my thirteenth birthday, I actually got a Leica camera. And we came to England. sJohn Legard: What school did you go to - you were at school.. ..Teddy Darvas: Gymnasium which is like a gra[…]

Richard Levin

[…]ust be something is a picture. He said, we'll come and look he showed me the next room where there was a table chair and and a  hole in the wall camera box looked up all the flashing lights. And it was obvious that the the only thing that can be seen through the thing was a head anyway. Anyway,[…]

John Dark

[…]k much of that. So I win my holidays I went to Ealing Studios to see if I could get a job and I was 14 and they said yes they can get me a job in the camera department. And I came back and announced the fact that I was going to leave school and go to to Ealing and that caused another family crisis a[…]

James (Jimmy) Gilbert

[…] BBC people and people in broadcasting from abroad, Nigeria, allover the world and I thought they would be jumping They did start by saying this is a camera and this is a boom. And they took you right the way through it and then you did your won training exercise at the end. I'd done a thing for the[…]

Marion Grierson (Taylor)

[…]numerous times before we were able to shoot more than the one seagull. However, that really completed my work on the bench for the time being. We got cameras eventually one was a Newman Sinclair one and I was called upon to use to make films for the Travel and Industrial Development Association . I […]

Bruce Anderson

[…] I did a fourth year, which was a film, a very basic film introduction course. And I managed, managed to get a job at Granada Television as a trainee camera operator, video camera operator, which was November 68 I'm now coming up to my 21 years so I'm still there. You asked about the career well, I'[…]

Roy Parkinson

[…]Being in this film printers they also taught me how to wind film onto the drum like they had in those days for drying. Bryan Langley was a well-known cameraman, he was also working for my father and he taught me how to turn a camera, in those days 16 frames.SC: Because it was silent days still.RP: S[…]

Tom Peacock

[…]anny Yospha: I knew Bill Vickers who I used to...Tom Peacock: Bill who?Manny Yospha: Bill Vickers.Tom Peacock: Oh yes.Manny Yospha: Cause he's on the camera committee with me.Tom Peacock: He was a camera operator...no he was a camera mechanic wasn't he?Sidney Cole: That's right yes.Tom Peacock: Did […]
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