[…]onInterviewee: David ProsserTape 1, Side 1Alan Lawson: The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. David Prosser, Newsreel cameraman, later BBC film cameraman. Recorded on the 23rd of the fifth, 1989 at his home in Chandler's Ford, Interviewer Alan Lawson. Side one.[break […]
[…] point of actually perforating the film stock, setting up the camera, loading the magazines, photographing the subject matter, developing the […]
[…]bsp;CHARLES SMITH: Well, I was born in 1920, May, in Rugby in Warwickshire. And my father kept a photographic chemist's shop. And so we had, uh, sold cameras, and I served customers with films and loaded the cameras. [laughter] I was the boy for all the people who'd bought expensive cameras and then[…]
[…] the film,making the film, was Nine Days A Queen and of course it was in the very early days ofsound. There was a sound booth on castors, there was a camera booth with glass windowsso everything had to., there were no tracking shots or panning shots of course. Thepanning shots were within the limits[…]
[…]fessed that they took my shoes off. So survey revealed. Anyway, at the university, I met Michael on who has a I think it was a Catholic School of 9.5 cameras, a woman's pocket holes in the middle. And I got it was very, very vague. But I thought I remember hitchhiking all the way to Bristol, to see […]
[…] fun. And so, I suppose, I stayed at Pathé 2 years, 2 ? years, perhaps a bit longer, in Wardour Street. Enjoyed it. Got to know the cameramen. Got to know the film editors. And really liked the news aspects of the business. Film industry wasn’t of great interest t[…]
Leonard Harris ( camera operator) 19/5/1916 - 1995 by admin — last modified Jul 27, 2008 02:16 PM BIOGRAPHY: Len […]
[…]se, yes. I: OK. So it was the sound, the audio bit? R: Yes, that was radio. Yes, Radio Hairmyres 'cause obviously, at that time, no one had cameras. They might've had stills cameras but no one had video cameras so sound would be something that would be very easy or easier to get into. […]
[…] the back door, we're calling her little boy and have tea. And I thought, well, now we shoot the mother at the back door, then you've got to turn the camera around, I suppose and shoot the little boy. But then when she answers him, you've got to turn the camera around and do it again. And I could ne[…]
[…]ted me. Do you know he's got, in a way he's got thousands of pounds worth of equipment round there. It's all old and useless, but he gets hold of old cameras and puts them right again, or he's trying to do that. He's got an old Super Parvo Debrie, you know a thousand foot one. He has a Vinten Everes[…]
