David Robson

[…]. Well I carried on at Dulwich, and then one afternoon got a call from Flora, and she said, "I know you're more interested in what goes on behind the camera rather than in front," she said, "all these technical things they don't interest me but they obviously do you!" [Laughs.] She said, "We're maki[…]

Dennis Main Wilson

[…]which Spike to this day still does. Now, Spike’s difficulty is, it's an insecurity in what he's written, so like his Q series you know, you've done a camera run through, yeah, he still wants to, he pulls out another… idea, he wants to rewrite it on the spot, which is different props, different scene[…]

Norman Fisher

[…]isher: Yes, well we had a sound unit of two, there was a recordist plus me.Roy Fowler: Who was the recordist?Norman Fisher: Ted Pauly. And we had two cameramen on the staff called Jonah Jones and Chick Fowle and we had a studio carpenter-come- handyman and everything else, so you could say we had, o[…]

Dicky Leeman

[…] end of the studio, a twelve/fifteen foot rostrum, with a camera. And he was in the foreground. And the set […]

Norman Fisher

[…] a problem because we couldn't run to a proper studio camera, we had a Debrie inside a home made blimp, […]

Dicky Leeman

[…]Leeman: We had Ivor Moreton, who was one of Harry's pianists, was up on a big rostrum at one end of the studio, a twelve/fifteen foot rostrum, with a camera. And he was in the foreground. And the set was a piano, and the top of the piano and the keyboard. And Harry and the girls were dancing on the […]

A A "Alf" Tunwell

[…]eloping in hand rock cans and pretty rough it was. And in my spare time old Barker used to train us boys, and we were really only boys, to hand crank cameras. Ready for any great news event which would come along. And we used to spend our lunch times just going up onto the top floor with an old Moy […]

Len Runkel

[…]myself before the war,Unknown Speaker  1:26  if you know what I mean.Unknown Speaker  1:29  But anyway, I was apprenticed to be a camera mechanic without any indentures. Of course, family business. Yeah,Unknown Speaker  1:39  it was very good becauseUnknown Speaker &nbs[…]

Douglas Slocombe

[…]is Open, open cockpits at the back the observers. And I always find that very intriguing to be so sort of you're standing out in the open act with my camera. And that gave me a wonderful love of love of flying, and I very much envied the pilots who flew those things. And it. It was my ambition to fl[…]

John Turner

[…] I got it. I didn't know the first thing about camera work or anything or what was involved in it. […]
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