Alan Lawson

[…] the right moment, there was movement going on at the camera department, I think David Lean had gone out of […]

John Mackay

[…]ifferent from today so just give us an idea of, you know, Studio set-ups then compared to now, the News Gathering set-up then as compared to now, the camera set-up. Just give us a flavour as to where we were technologically at that time. R: Well, the thing that struck me when I came from the BB[…]

Jimmy Wright

[…];I did a cycling holiday just before my 14th birthday uh I bought my first camera in a little town of Bon on the River Rhine one pound thirty of white[…]

David Prosser

[…]onInterviewee: David ProsserTape 1, Side 1Alan Lawson: The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. David Prosser, Newsreel cameraman, later BBC film cameraman. Recorded on the 23rd of the fifth, 1989 at his home in Chandler's Ford, Interviewer Alan Lawson. Side one.[break […]

Patrick (Paddy) Carey

[…]ad learned in the article. The article at that time certainly had no courses in photography at all. But Brandon Stafford, who was himself to become a camera man, he was really interested in films we were both moderately active in the in the Irish Film Society. And Brendan, Brendan was very keen to g[…]

John Agnew

[…]se, yes. I: OK. So it was the sound, the audio bit? R: Yes, that was radio. Yes, Radio Hairmyres 'cause obviously, at that time, no one had cameras. They might've had stills cameras but no one had video cameras so sound would be something that would be very easy or easier to get into. […]

John Daly

[…]n Speaker  1:14  are in short,Unknown Speaker  1:16  movies like that. And then I saw that I had in my mind that I'd like to be a cameraman. And so I wrote it while I was at school in sixth form, I wrote to the BBC and said, Are there any vacancies as an assistant cameraman? And […]

Yvonne Littlewood

[…]nged the scenery in ‘A’. And we had a little interval, probably for the news or something, and we went back, and he took us all back into ‘A’ and the cameramen went back on the cameras that were in ‘A’ and we did Act 3.Didn't ‘A’ have one more camera than ‘B’?I think it did, I think there were four […]

Manny Yospa

[…] on working relations between different departments - the sound and camera departments for instance, and on the relations between the […]
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