[…]at then one person tended to do everything on a film. So if, you would be an assistant editor, you could be an editor, you could have worked with the cameraman, you'd work with the director, you were a gopher, but you were also a gopher with a lot of, really a lot of responsibility. Mary […]
[…]en acting on film in one way or another since I was sixteen, so I ought to have known what I was doing.Sidney Cole : Did you have a good co-operative cameraman on that?Muriel Box : Very Good.Sidney Cole : Can you remember who it was? Did Reg Wyer work a lot on those films? Was he on that one do you […]
[…]k to me when he died. I started - as far as going into photography and filmmaking, when I was thirteen. I think for my bar mitzvah I received two box cameras, two cameras, and started with photography and set up a dark room and started doing printing and developing films and so forth. And I think I […]
[…] weeks.BA: 3 weeks.BE: No, I expect it was a bit more than that but we used to think in terms of 3 or 4 weeks, that was a lot.BA: Do you know who the cameraman was.BE: It was Jimmy Wilson who did a lot of Mr Baxter's films. I don’t know if you knew him but he was a very quiet, unlike a filmmaker rea[…]
[…]It was well - Graham Sarpe and Sidney Rodman - Graham Sarpe did most of the direction - I was sort of supervising it and, and Stanley Rodwell was the cameraman. It was well photographed, it's reasonably well edited, it has a rather conventional sort of commentary on it. Er - but it was a good, strai[…]
[…]g, I was taught by all of them a little bit, so yes we did absolutely everything, everybody did everythingRF: But how about the production crews, the camera for example, or sound, were...who provided that?LK: I think mainly we did it, this young chap from the Polish Army film unit, this Peter, I rem[…]
[…]till studio. Got the photographs and took them back, and worked out this portrait, which was, I must admit, given full credit, [chuckles] because the camera opened on it and drew back and there it was, and it was the sort of focal point, so it was rather nice. Er, and years and years and years later[…]
