[…] Interview No. 421[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: TBCInterview Date: 1997-10-09Interviewer: Alan LawsonInterviewee: John TurnerJOHN TURNER, news cameramanTape 1, Side 1Alan Lawson: First, John, when and where were you born?John Turner: I was born in Hampstead actually, yes, I'm a Londoner I'm g[…]
[…]a title?Reg Sutton: Sound recordist.Roy Fowler: Then what? Tell us about Movietone then and how they operated?Reg Sutton: One would work with a sound cameraman. And you'd have a car, I started with a Sunbeam Talbot, the roof of which was specially reconstructed and strengthened and rubber lining put[…]
[…] Martin Gray who was the soundman and he transferred to camera. We can't all be perfect, so I went in […]
[…]nt boom operators. And if the boom moved, went there, he knew exactly was no messing around. And of course he was highly respected and lighting cameraman always lit for the boom in those days becauseAlan Lawson 4:19 if you had to.Michael Colomb 4:22 And that indeed was […]
[…]ormanville 7:19 later, we got together Don Lobos live with me, commonly in Whipsnade. Anyway, I went down to Shell applied for a job as a camera assistany at three pounds five a week. Believing in fact that it was essential to learn the camera side that I wanted to be a director eventual[…]
[…]see through other people's eyes. So what one is tempted to say, and has been known to say to him is, look, I'll take this role away. Now, there's the camera and everything. Turn around, do what you like, thinking to yourself as a pity is doing it with my lighting. You know, pity I can't switch all l[…]
[…]2. And this is side one of the tape.John, you've had a career in the business lasting half a century. I know you started off in the camera department became a cameraman. And that you ended up as the producer of those specialised films 50 years is quite time, how did it all be[…]
Copyright is vested in the BECTU History ProjectFREDDIE FRANCIS, lighting cameraman, feature film director, interviewer Alan Lawson, recorded on 24 November 1993SIDE 1, TAPE 1Alan Lawson: When and where were you born?Freddie Francis: I was born in the wilds of North London, Barnesbury, north London […]
[…] practically every scene. Well he's got this thing about the camera looking up at him. Well he's 6 ft 4 […]
