[…]Leeman: We had Ivor Moreton, who was one of Harry's pianists, was up on a big rostrum at one end of the studio, a twelve/fifteen foot rostrum, with a camera. And he was in the foreground. And the set was a piano, and the top of the piano and the keyboard. And Harry and the girls were dancing on the […]
[…]ovies. I started as a sound recordingengineer.Roy Fowler: What - is there anything in between? I've got that you went to Nettlefold in 1929 as a camera assistant, what had you done...?Vernon Sewell: I was an engineer!Roy Fowler: An engineer, that's what you'd studied?Vernon Sewell:&nb[…]
[…]n Speaker 1:14 are in short,Unknown Speaker 1:16 movies like that. And then I saw that I had in my mind that I'd like to be a cameraman. And so I wrote it while I was at school in sixth form, I wrote to the BBC and said, Are there any vacancies as an assistant cameraman? And […]
[…]rocket holes, mend them. And then after a time one of the co-ops wanted a - they were having a fete and they said, "Can you send someone along with a camera to take a picture?" [Laughs] They gave me a camera, a 16mm camera - I'd never held one before! And I went out and I took pictures of the fete. […]
[…]that he handed it over to me to direct those sequences. And when I say direct, I mean rehearse them and direct it with the actors and then he put the cameras on it. But I had all that responsibility in those days, and I was so fascinated by the editing, that I used to spend every minute I could in t[…]
[…]nbsp;encouraged me. And in a very short time I was working on one of their cameras. You. Know doing announcements for like. Teas chocolates will be served at fo[…]
[…] photography. Sidney Cole: You mean, how many turns of the camera? Tilly Day: Yes, how many to count back. Because […]
[…]name ?) '4711' Cream for hands - my hands were used and...everything like that. This went on for ages and I learnt the industry slowly, you know. The cameramen interested me...there was Phil Ross, Lesley Everley, Bert Ford.Sidney Cole: Oh, one of the Fords, yes?Tilly Day: Old Bert Ford, ye[…]
[…]se, yes. I: OK. So it was the sound, the audio bit? R: Yes, that was radio. Yes, Radio Hairmyres 'cause obviously, at that time, no one had cameras. They might've had stills cameras but no one had video cameras so sound would be something that would be very easy or easier to get into. […]
