[…]idn't know much about sound or questions about sound. And I didn't know much about that. And it just so happened, he mentioned this me to the head of camera department at the time. So we could do with a boiler workshop. So I started work in the capital workshops. That was just after Eastern IG 42. A[…]
[…]ragm and then you'd mark the frame, wind back and put it in the can. You would write down where it was shot, where the sun was and where to point the camera. Years later, when I arrived, these cans would be produced and I was told to go to a certain place - I can't remember if any frames were d[…]
[…]ch was a favourite. And so I got you know, that was the magic of cinema to me from an earlier age. And also, I was involved with film in front of the camera because he was a keen amateur filmmaker. He was a founding member of the amateur film, amateur Film Society. I saw the Wycombe amateur Film Clu[…]
[…]However, I managed to land a job in Mega assembly at technicolour and it was on a shift basis in 1946 mega assembly and technically I applied for the camera department, Frank bush interviewed me and said I'm sorry we have no vacancies. But we I will pass you to Dr. linsay, who was a very learned col[…]
[…]d was producing it and I was told that the person I had to interview was a long distance runner called Gordon Pirie. So we were sat on a sofa and the cameras as you will well recall were so wide angled that in order to get a reasonable shot of the head and shoulders they had to be only about two fee[…]
[…] school I went to I became very friendly with them. Another chapter has gone into films and Boys Life and shackled margin. And we have actually had a camera. So we made mo vies and great movies. When we were eight onwards I was under the influence with those two men. The chapter moved away. From. We[…]
[…] the actual business of laboratory, but were sort of trainee people. One was Ian grant. No, wasn't Ian grant, somebody Grant, who eventually became a camera man. Another one was Ian squire, J squire son, all of him later, because I did gigs with him, because he put me into the Oh God. He put me into[…]
[…] from him at all, looking straight out ad at the camera while this chap was sitting out of sight as […]
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[…] demand … you knew there was a demand then but they must have been planning for an increased demand for technicians, editors - I mean it was editors, cameramen and recordists they wanted at the time. AL It was also empire building. JG Well maybe, it could be, but whatever i mean it w[…]