[…]bsp;Yeah. I mean, in those days, of course, you didn't have pictures taken left, right and centre like they do these days. You know, you had a 35 mil camera. And you very carefully calculated whether or not you could afford to press the button, because it was almost expensive and you had to have it […]
[…] he’d done quite a lot of television. I think mainly as an assistant, I don’t think he was a director.Daphne Shadwell DRAFT Page 53He was a cameraman, at WCAU in Philadelphia.DS: Was he? Was he? I never knew that. But I mean he was full of good ideas and of course they immediately put him […]
[…] job as a cameraman; learning to use a Newman Sinclair camera; beginning work as a war correspondent; World War II: […]
Cyril Pennington-Richards (cameraman and director) 17/12/1911 - 2/1/2005by admin — last modified Aug 12, 2008 12:43 PMBECTU History Project - Interview No. 122[Copyright BECTU] Transcription Date: 2003-08-13Interview Date: 1990-01-09Interviewer: Alan Lawson and Colin Moffat Inter[…]
[…] Terraneau... Alan Lawson: Yes... Cyril Pennington-Richards: ...who I bought a camera off, fifty pounds, and we started. He had a […]
[…] all about that or if you were on the sound camera you were tucked away in another room. The only […]
[…]nk Sainsbury, Ruby Grayson, John Taylor, Donald Taylor was one of the producers. Shaw Alex Shaw, who else was there? Well, George Noel was one of the camera man and Harry Rick Noel, who perished during the war. Was there? Ruby Grayson, too was bombed on a ship going to the States. That is John Grays[…]
Alan Lawson, CameramanCopyright ACTT History ProjectSeptember 1987 Interviewer, Arthur Graham Arthur Graham: Where and when were you born?Alan Lawson: I was born in Gidea Park, a suburb of Romford in July 1912, we moved to London 3 years later.Arthur Graham: Whereabouts?Alan Lawson: […]
[…]ason to be fried Noel. Then there was Peter cannon. There was a little chap connected with the collino brothers. He was but he was a brilliantly good cameraman, solid as a rock. I'm telling you, these were the first people I met. Then there was Ted Hawkins, who used to was with Paramount. Then he ca[…]
[…]quite a thing in those days. I'm talking about 1934 or something like that, maybe 33. I got terrible interested in that and he gave me one of his old cameras, a 16mm Bell and Howell and that's how I started to be interested in cinematography. I made a sort of school newsreel. I talked the headmaster[…]
