Daphne Ancell

[…]] No, that wasn’t there, I was thinking of, if it was around about the time when, mm,Winifred, Winifred Crum Ewing and, mm, oh dear he was a newsreel cameraman?Ben Gordon.[OI] No, no, no. Oh no, no very right wing, mm. Oh Harold, Harold, mm...Not Harold Lanscombe [ph 278].[OI] No, no, no, you knew h[…]

daphne-ancell-hp-transcript

[…] [OI] John von Kotze. I don’t remember him. But the camera section were always dead scruffy but a very glamorous […]

Bernard Ponsonby

[…]irst interview! My first interview was an interview with Professor Bill Miller, Professor of Politics at Glasgow University. Danny Livingston was the Cameraman, Dorothy Le Grove was on Sound and of course, in those days, camera crews tended to be paired off. It was Danny and Dot or Danny and Ken McN[…]

Anne Hanford

[…]say, philosophy, method of selecting people to work in film libraries is usually taking the failed film technicians.  If you weren’t a very good cameraman or a very good editor they thought ‘Oh put them in the library, they can’t do much harm there.’  So, it was a rather strange kind of en[…]

Tony Lawson

[…]e you were born? Tony Lawson  0:16  Yes, I was born in London, in Paddington. My mother was a nurse. My father worked in the camera department as a cameraman, and I grew up in North London. I went to a co- educational school called King Alfreds in Hampstead. Didn't do very w[…]

Joy Batchelor

[…]to cel in ink. It was disgusting!Kay Mander: No in-betweening?Joy Batchelor: Well no, it's very easy to in-between with cels.Kay Mander: What sort of camera did they use in those days?Joy Batchelor: I think it was a Sinclair. I'll tell you who operated that, was Adrian Jeakins - do you remember Jeak[…]

Joy Batchelor

[…] easy to in-between with cels. Kay Mander: What sort of camera did they use in those days? Joy Batchelor: I […]
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