[…]ly Record doing Showbiz and Brian Burnett doing various bits and pieces. And these people were so amazing to work with along with all the Editors and camera people that I then got to know properly because we were doing more in-depth, longer form items and it very, very quickly became clear to me how[…]
[…]So the next obvious stage for me really was that I wanted to start making films. And so, for another birthday, thank God, Pathéscopeproduced a little camera called the Pathé Pat and it was six guineas, so that waswithin the range of my father, if he got it on HP [Hire Purchase] he could actuall[…]
1HP0672 Jenny Barraclough interview transcript(Interviewee; Jenny Barraclough, Interviewer; Simon Rose, Camera; Dan Thurley)00’03”SRJenny thanks very much for agreeing to take part in the History Project.JBWell it's my pleasure.SRCan I first ask, when and where you were born?JBIn Burgess Hill in Sus[…]
Stan Sayer (SS)Laboratories, Visual Effects, Camera Operator (Technicolor)BECTU No. 242Interviewers: Alan Lawson (AL) Syd Wilson (SW)20 February 19921 Tape Side 100:00:00 – 00:10:00 Introductions; born in Highbury, Islington, 11 May 1917; attended Middlesex University College, Muswell Hill; las[…]
[…]and a half years, three years. Iwould like to say that there were interesting relics from the past in the COI, there was JimmyDavidson who had been a cameraman and a famous cameraman and he had now relapsed into beingin charge of technical appliances and there used to be a little drinking school eve[…]
[…] of Televisi on Production’ when it was all multi - camera and live, important to write shooting script accurately. He […]
[…] as the producer I used to roll myself with a camera up there taking pictures of it and then you'd […]
[…]as an extraordinary drunken affair because instead of serving drinks and canopies, they just let bottles of whiskey out on the table. But anyway, the cameraman on that event was Jerry Lewis, who I worked with frequently after that. Now because of this thing of just going off and holding a hand lamp […]
[…]ion to those people in the business, I went to the Islington Studios one morning where it so happened they were starting a new film and the assistant camera hadn't turned up on that day so they took me on, just like that.Wyn Ryder: When was that, what date about?Reggie Beck: I don't rememb[…]