[…] went to Hampton, which was Hampton grammar school. And in this, just before the school holidays, 1928 I was offered a job as assistant to the stills camera man at Whorton Hall. And I said, Fine, you know, this was for the school holiday period. And I went over there on a Saturday morning, and found[…]
[…]k much of that. So I win my holidays I went to Ealing Studios to see if I could get a job and I was 14 and they said yes they can get me a job in the camera department. And I came back and announced the fact that I was going to leave school and go to to Ealing and that caused another family crisis a[…]
[…]to cel in ink. It was disgusting!Kay Mander: No in-betweening?Joy Batchelor: Well no, it's very easy to in-between with cels.Kay Mander: What sort of camera did they use in those days?Joy Batchelor: I think it was a Sinclair. I'll tell you who operated that, was Adrian Jeakins - do you remember Jeak[…]
[…] departments at Gaumont and Gainsborough, he ended at in the camera department G-B Instructional working with Lewis Gilbert on documentary […]
[…] being televised, yes. Well, it was being… Were you on camera? I would have been, had I been round there, […]
[…] easy to in-between with cels. Kay Mander: What sort of camera did they use in those days? Joy Batchelor: I […]
[…] call had left. And in their place, they had been for assistant producers. But we were all acting as producers. So there was use of this, who was the cameraman from London, he'd worked on loss of the summer wine and a lot of these big programmes, and he was in there, especially hay, who had been a e[…]
