[…] near London on 22 September 1918 and myfather was - he had retired from the RAF in 1924, which was quite early - and he joinedCookwit(?) Budget as a camera man which was one of the original, very original, cinemanewsreels. Topical budget. I mean it was one of the first ones. He then transferred, to[…]
[…] the back door, we're calling her little boy and have tea. And I thought, well, now we shoot the mother at the back door, then you've got to turn the camera around, I suppose and shoot the little boy. But then when she answers him, you've got to turn the camera around and do it again. And I could ne[…]
[…]se piles of of corpses, all literally skeletons, just piled on top of each other, And these people with staring eyes and wearing rags, looking at the camera. I went it was, it was something that will live with you for the rest of your life. You will never, ever lose that Nick Gilbey […]
[…] how things worked in the studios and some of the camera people and the technicians direct ors you worked with […]
[…]a, you have been interviewed a great deal as an actress, so maybe rather than repeating your view of how things worked in the studios and some of the camera people and the technicians directors you worked with. CB: YesI: your memories of that timeCB: RightI: I don’t know if you’ve covered them previ[…]
[…]quite a thing in those days. I'm talking about 1934 or something like that, maybe 33. I got terrible interested in that and he gave me one of his old cameras, a 16mm Bell and Howell and that's how I started to be interested in cinematography. I made a sort of school newsreel. I talked the headmaster[…]
[…]ed Under the Greenwood Tree and, and … Claude - I was getting down to Ashridge Park …ALAN LAWSON: Was it Claude Raines?HARRY MILLER: No, no, the, the cameraman, the first cameraman.ALAN LAWSON: Oh, oh, Friese-Greene.HARRY MILLER: Claude Friese-Greene. Well, Friese-Greene couldn’t get much lig[…]
[…]soever. What had happened is that, as I said, I had to get a job, and my mother heard that an acquaintance of hers, who was Desmond Dickinson was the cameraman at Stoll Studios, which was just up the road. My mother knew of Dickie, of Desmond Dickinson from Surbition, purely and simply as an acquain[…]
[…]e Formby show ever. We did two huge ones, I can’t remember what they were, but they were live you see, and of course in those days you see, the camera scripts were very perfunctory; if indeed there were any. And I was doing the gallery, and the way it was done, that you just had pages fo[…]
[…]ad learned in the article. The article at that time certainly had no courses in photography at all. But Brandon Stafford, who was himself to become a camera man, he was really interested in films we were both moderately active in the in the Irish Film Society. And Brendan, Brendan was very keen to g[…]
