[…]lard]This is a British Entertainment History Project interview with Carol Owens at home in Ealing. The date is the twenty ninth of November 2017. The camera operator is Steve Brooke Smith and the interviewer is Paul Collard. So Carol thank you very much for making yourself available for a British En[…]
[…] you to photography or was it something you picked up yourself?CL: I think it started when my brother Jack brought me a Kodak, one of the small Kodak cameras of the time. And I was thirteen and I had six sisters.NA: (laughs) Six sisters!CL: Which were all very photographic. So I had quite a model ag[…]
[…]n quarter inch tape. That was all we had. And we had a sound mixer, a lady who did sound mixing Plus she was Secretary of Hugh Baddley as well. And a cameraman Brian Tucker.We part again, part of my duties was assisting all those people in various things. We've made educational films quite a few edu[…]
[…]elf into that job became an assistant to the tech. Like we can't think of his Christian name, but his surname was Harris, ron ron Harris, who was the camera man. And Freddie White, who was the stills photographer in charge of that unit. There's a bit of a connotation there. Just quickly, very aggres[…]
[…]was always accused of being the one sowed the seed. And I was almost on a point of leaving school at 14 as you could in those days and going into the camera department. I think I could have had a job. But the family got onto my parents. When I mean that I mean, the other brothers and dissuaded them […]
[…] time wasn't it? Because, how sensitive were the mikes in those days?Peter Birch : Oh they weren't too bad at all, the trouble was noise you see. The cameras weren't properly silent, so they had to be put in a booth, and that made it awkward for them, and of course you were never allowed to get the […]
[…]was an outside broadcast? Live?MD: No, no! They didn’t go into the theatre as I recall, OBs were not so sophisticated in those days. I don’t remember cameras at the Wells ever. I have here-D H Munro for The Three Bears, Elizabeth Colwell for The Selfish Giant, D H Munro for The Sleeping Princess 25t[…]
[…]Being in this film printers they also taught me how to wind film onto the drum like they had in those days for drying. Bryan Langley was a well-known cameraman, he was also working for my father and he taught me how to turn a camera, in those days 16 frames.SC: Because it was silent days still.RP: S[…]
[…] of Televisi on Production’ when it was all multi - camera and live, important to write shooting script accurately. He […]
