Mickey Hickey

[…] that, so D. P. Field now needed a new sound camera operator. So anyway John Aldred was given the job […]

Pat Jackson

[…] He got a job at Welwyn Garden City as a camera operator. He was a very bright lad. And there […]

Pat Jackson

[…] He got a job at Welwyn Garden City as a camera operator. He was a very bright lad. And there […]

Joe Mendoza

[…]hat when I got a big wide take over the business, but I sort of got infected with some very early because a friend of mine had a nine half millimetre camera, and I look at all this holiday pictures. And then then eventually, I went to some Paul's School. And they had a wish to have a film show every[…]

Wendy Toye

[…]that he handed it over to me to direct those sequences. And when I say direct, I mean rehearse them and direct it with the actors and then he put the cameras on it. But I had all that responsibility in those days, and I was so fascinated by the editing, that I used to spend every minute I could in t[…]

Peter Dimmock

[…] at school for various magazines and submit them and mostly got rejections, but some of them got published.  And then - you know where I carried cameras later one because I started to drive. I think you were sixteen and half you were allowed to drive a little car = I always carried a camera wit[…]

Philip Bonham-Carter

[…]on when I was in the studio.Well I knew absolutely nothing. I was a complete spectator to start off with, but then I noticed that the guys behind the camera seemed to be doing the most interesting stuff. 7 mins PB-C: And so I was taught to load 1000 foot magazines and all that sort of thin[…]

Michael (Mickey) Hickey

[…]hearsay, I knew nothing about Pinewood!" "Well" he said, "you've got to go off to the Great Central in London, you and about ninety-nine others, on a cameraman's course." This is how Pinewood got me. A cameraman's course was a War Office posting. Your regiment could have no say in the matter. So any[…]

Margaret Dale

[…]was an outside broadcast? Live?MD: No, no! They didn’t go into the theatre as I recall, OBs were not so sophisticated in those days. I don’t remember cameras at the Wells ever. I have here-D H Munro for The Three Bears, Elizabeth Colwell for The Selfish Giant, D H Munro for The Sleeping Princess 25t[…]

Elizabeth (Liz) Bale

[…]So you didn't sit beside him and do it. He just took your script and Elizabeth Bale  24:48  Well, you see, we do the sort of camera script and the links for the other film inserts, but his commentary was always on separate piece of paper, and there was no auto queue in those[…]
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