[…]ell that's al right. And later on in life he was the same about photography because I wanted to photograph, and I found an extraordinary old Sinclair camera, about 18" by you know... that was all made of mahogany and I used to love this thing and I used to look at it. I didn’t know how to use it, bu[…]
[…]d I was usually asked to act or something like that, you know, to take part as contributing rather than as actually pressing any buttons or directing cameras. So I’d done that and when ’55 came and they, you know, they were very short of hands, they asked would people who had any sort of knowledge o[…]
[…]don Hales 26:39 he would go out if he had to make a film about one was concerned with agriculture. Then he will go out with his favourite camera man, they had some very gifted young caravan, Jonah Jones and Henry Fal under a lesser extent Fred Gammage, he would go out, shoot his stuff an[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]ion to those people in the business, I went to the Islington Studios one morning where it so happened they were starting a new film and the assistant camera hadn't turned up on that day so they took me on, just like that.Wyn Ryder: When was that, what date about?Reggie Beck: I don't rememb[…]
[…] hand feed him. I would draw up a little tiny camera plan of the sets for him so he knew […]
[…] I got it. I didn't know the first thing about camera work or anything or what was involved in it. […]
[…] there was a very ferocious looking female engineer and the camera, three cameras I was going to use were linked […]
[…]ly needed to go and earn some money so I had to leave. Got as many part-time jobs as I could and, eventually, saw in the Glasgow Herald an advert for Camera Assistant in the Educational Television Service. But it was coming up in eighteen months time. The same advert was also looking for Lab Assista[…]
[…] Rupert used to, in fact Rupert Davies who played Maigret used to rely on me to because I used to really hand feed him. I would draw up a little tiny camera plan of the sets for him so he knew where he was going in the, in the actual studio.He wasn’t very hot on the lines I believe?No, he wasn’t, [L[…]
