[…]ohnny Goodman: And all that went on and I realised that yet was not my forte. So agitated again and with great benevolence I was finally put into the camera department of Gaumont-British Instructional Films. And it was while I was down at Falmouth doing a little film called Sailors Do Care - it was […]
[…]asm, I don't even remember how much it cost but it would be practically nothing.I was provided with the local school master John Jones to operate the camera and a friend of Gavin's who was I think third assistant third assistant at British National Bill Bindon helped maybe. He didn't really know muc[…]
[…]to ask for a job, in photography, and was told to start the next day in the laboratory working for Harvey Harrison; after a year, Harvey took over as cameraman in the studios so FY was left in charge of the laboratory; FY talks about processing film in the early days using frames; after a year, the […]
[…] with the local school master John Jones to operate the camera and a friend of Gavin's who was I think […]
[…]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[…]
[…]. They were under the counter so I got known by the local tobacconist and used to have an order from the person in the sound department and the cameraman and the people in the office and – 10 Players here and 10 Woodbine so I used to have a big shopping list. Getting cigarettes was[…]
[…]t something - were there those who were really - you might be scared of because they were so tough to work with? I mean, I remember when I was in the camera department, the power of the first assistant and I remember particularly a chap called Jimmy Shingfield, who was a great guy but his junior use[…]
[…]ct, a lot of their stuff a lot of those things were were throwbacks to the to the early silent comic films and I think you know the liberation of the camera i mean i i mean on six sided triangle which I was Boulting brothers gave me a production manager to do oversee the shoot, which we did in[…]
[…]k much of that. So I win my holidays I went to Ealing Studios to see if I could get a job and I was 14 and they said yes they can get me a job in the camera department. And I came back and announced the fact that I was going to leave school and go to to Ealing and that caused another family crisis a[…]
