[…]d I was usually asked to act or something like that, you know, to take part as contributing rather than as actually pressing any buttons or directing cameras. So I’d done that and when ’55 came and they, you know, they were very short of hands, they asked would people who had any sort of knowledge o[…]
[…] Julius Hagen, the best remembered of which are The Ghost Camera (1933), Dusty Ermine (1936) and The Last Journey (1936). […]
[…] there was a very ferocious looking female engineer and the camera, three cameras I was going to use were linked […]
[…]nice about this, it’s a modesty really, because the English can’t show off. They get too self-conscious. They can sing in church but once you put the cameras in on a Sunday morning, they’re all looking anywhere but [at the camera]. It’s self-consciousness. This is why I’m worried about next year’s O[…]
[…]. They were under the counter so I got known by the local tobacconist and used to have an order from the person in the sound department and the cameraman and the people in the office and – 10 Players here and 10 Woodbine so I used to have a big shopping list. Getting cigarettes was[…]
[…]t something - were there those who were really - you might be scared of because they were so tough to work with? I mean, I remember when I was in the camera department, the power of the first assistant and I remember particularly a chap called Jimmy Shingfield, who was a great guy but his junior use[…]
[…]cifically. And then the night we had Laurel and Hardy the entire crew and everybody was giggling to such an extent that they could hardly focus their cameras it was extremely funny. And then suddenly, these two old` men were cowed by these rather tough little wives as they come along, Stan and come […]
[…], tell me if it's funny." So they shot one take, he said, "Is it funny?" They said, "I don't think so." He said, "All right, shoot it again!" And the cameraman was having nightmares, because the thing was rocking like this! So they made a second take and he said, "Is it funny?" They said, "Oh yes, y[…]
[…] BBC people and people in broadcasting from abroad, Nigeria, allover the world and I thought they would be jumping They did start by saying this is a camera and this is a boom. And they took you right the way through it and then you did your won training exercise at the end. I'd done a thing for the[…]
[…] was at University in one of the summer holidays, I went to the local photographic shop down in Gloucester Road in Bristol and bought myself my first camera which was an Exa 500 German Single Lens Reflex Camera and a few rolls of transparency film but the guy on the shop was very much an enthusiast […]
