[…]was always accused of being the one sowed the seed. And I was almost on a point of leaving school at 14 as you could in those days and going into the camera department. I think I could have had a job. But the family got onto my parents. When I mean that I mean, the other brothers and dissuaded them […]
[…]ell that's al right. And later on in life he was the same about photography because I wanted to photograph, and I found an extraordinary old Sinclair camera, about 18" by you know... that was all made of mahogany and I used to love this thing and I used to look at it. I didn’t know how to use it, bu[…]
[…]e. And the film department, you can't do that, it's too, too long, you cannot do it in one day. I said if there is good preparation for it and a good cameraman he can do it in one hour. Because only one shot. And Tubby Englander, a great standby and co-worker, apart from Peter Sargent, did it in one[…]
[…]rlie Frend has the director credit.Robert Beatty: I mean Charlie Frend.Roy Fowler: Robert Hamer is listed as associate producer. Ernie Palmer was the cameraman.Robert Beatty: All very pleasant people, everybody was very sweet down at Ealing. It was a real family atmosphere down at Ealing. They ate t[…]
[…] wanted to photograph, and I found an extraordinary old Sinclair camera, about 18" by you know ... that was all […]
[…]t 5.30! I got out of my A40, hopped into the studio, and virtually was on the air within about 20 minutes. And it was a tiny, tiny studio with 2 cameras, and only one cameraman. And it was he who sprinted from one camera to the other. Of course what he did was to lock off one and operate the ot[…]
[…]sts in films and photography developed and what were your first experiences of colour photography?BP: Well it all started when a friend of mine had a camera, a movie camera, and I thought this was really interesting and I asked whether I could borrow it and he said yes and I bought a couple of films[…]
[…] on that first word, direct coupling. Stanley Watkins 13:15 It was a motor which drove the projection machine and the camera, it drove the record directly and then through a complicated gearing and filter, mechanical filter, which was a great piece of work, that was H[…]
