[…]lard]This is a British Entertainment History Project interview with Carol Owens at home in Ealing. The date is the twenty ninth of November 2017. The camera operator is Steve Brooke Smith and the interviewer is Paul Collard. So Carol thank you very much for making yourself available for a British En[…]
[…]– I don’t know if you are interviewing him – but he will extrapolate on how film is supposed to move a little bit, you know, in the projector, in the camera: if it’s absolutely rock-steady you should be suspicious. It’s not going to be like the original. Digital restoration loses that patina very of[…]
[…]nd of thing. I don't remember the secrets of life and Secrets of Nature. Yes. Nature. That's right. Yes. Do you remember the these two specials cameraman will supply the material? PercySmith first? Oh, yes. Percy Smith was a minor so slight science. boffins only one man he was able to do. Yes,[…]
[…] I got the job. Starting in the lowest possible step...Alan Lawson : Which was?Gordon McCallum : I became the loading boy. I kept film loaded for the cameras, the sound cameras, and I did any other menial task that was necessary. Keeping the sheets, the records and that sort of thing, going to get t[…]
[…] gentleman who looked at meas if I was nothing. You want to go into films, what do you want to do?I don't know. I just want to be in films. I suppose cameras is the mostinteresting. I was expecting to be a clapperboy, I thought that was thebeginning of everything. He said well they need someone in t[…]
[…] had turned over. I omitted to say that - the camera was running of course, the picture and sound were […]
[…] was forced in processing to give extra grain and the camera juddered occasionally because Watkins kicked the tripod). But they […]
[…]t too involved. I did a lot of interesting programmes. I did a motor a motorboat race, Power Boat race on the Isle of Wight, which smashed up all the cameras because all the valves got black and white cameras, and on a big naval boat crashing across the waves. The Navy said they won't last now, our […]
[…]ing and is treating the assistant very very rough. That was fat Colin I can't remember his other name now. You probably know there's no quite eminent camera man. I'll think of him soon. But he was the only one who was totally impervious to Tubby's cutting edge didn't get all there and Ken can he cut[…]
