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[…] course at the same time, Samuelsons were growing in the camera rental side. And during the late 60s and early […]

Michael Colomb

[…]nt boom operators. And if the boom moved, went there, he knew exactly was no messing around. And of course he  was highly respected and lighting cameraman always lit for the boom in those days becauseAlan Lawson  4:19  if you had to.Michael Colomb  4:22  And that indeed was […]

Freddie Francis

Copyright is vested in the BECTU History ProjectFREDDIE FRANCIS, lighting cameraman, feature film director, interviewer Alan Lawson, recorded on 24 November 1993SIDE 1, TAPE 1Alan Lawson: When and where were you born?Freddie Francis: I was born in the wilds of North London, Barnesbury, north London […]

Peter de Normanville

[…]ormanville  7:19  later, we got together Don Lobos live with me, commonly in Whipsnade. Anyway, I went down to Shell applied for a job as a camera assistany at three pounds five a week. Believing in fact that it was essential to learn the camera side that I wanted to be a director eventual[…]

Dicky Leeman

[…] end of the studio, a twelve/fifteen foot rostrum, with a camera. And he was in the foreground. And the set […]

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[…] practically every scene. Well he's got this thing about the camera looking up at him. Well he's 6 ft 4 […]

Ted Candy Transcript

[…] job as a cameraman; learning to use a Newman Sinclair camera; beginning work as a war correspondent; World War II: […]

John Wiles

[…]2. And this is  side  one of the tape.John, you've had a career in the business lasting half a century. I know  you started off in the camera department became a cameraman. And that you ended up as the producer of those specialised  films 50 years is quite time, how did it all be[…]

Dicky Leeman

[…]Leeman: We had Ivor Moreton, who was one of Harry's pianists, was up on a big rostrum at one end of the studio, a twelve/fifteen foot rostrum, with a camera. And he was in the foreground. And the set was a piano, and the top of the piano and the keyboard. And Harry and the girls were dancing on the […]

Reg Sutton

[…]a title?Reg Sutton: Sound recordist.Roy Fowler: Then what? Tell us about Movietone then and how they operated?Reg Sutton: One would work with a sound cameraman. And you'd have a car, I started with a Sunbeam Talbot, the roof of which was specially reconstructed and strengthened and rubber lining put[…]
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