[…]. Well I carried on at Dulwich, and then one afternoon got a call from Flora, and she said, "I know you're more interested in what goes on behind the camera rather than in front," she said, "all these technical things they don't interest me but they obviously do you!" [Laughs.] She said, "We're maki[…]
[…]ion near St Albans and I loved every minute of it and couldn't wait to get next to the producer as he was called in those days, the director, and the cameraman and others. I wanted to learn all I could, I think I must have made a hell of a nuisance of myself. The director, Percy Nash was a very tole[…]
[…]bsp;CHARLES SMITH: Well, I was born in 1920, May, in Rugby in Warwickshire. And my father kept a photographic chemist's shop. And so we had, uh, sold cameras, and I served customers with films and loaded the cameras. [laughter] I was the boy for all the people who'd bought expensive cameras and then[…]
[…]ch was a favourite. And so I got you know, that was the magic of cinema to me from an earlier age. And also, I was involved with film in front of the camera because he was a keen amateur filmmaker. He was a founding member of the amateur film, amateur Film Society. I saw the Wycombe amateur Film Clu[…]
[…]went with Anyushka to the studio. And one day, Mary Field, I think, I think it was Mary Field was the, the so- called continuity girl, sitting by the camera with a block, taking notes, and she fell ill. And Anyushka said to Fyodor ‘Use this girl, she's done it everywhere, you know, Paris, Rome, Berl[…]
[…] Field was the, the so-called continuity girl, sitting by the camera with a block, taking notes, and she fell ill. […]
[…]ut not very much.Rodney Giesler : Were they more three-dimensional than before?L.P. Williams : Well, yes it became more elaborate you see because the cameras became more mobile and cranes were introduced and dollies and things which they virtually didn't have with silent pictures you see.Rodney Gies[…]
[…]However, I managed to land a job in Mega assembly at technicolour and it was on a shift basis in 1946 mega assembly and technically I applied for the camera department, Frank bush interviewed me and said I'm sorry we have no vacancies. But we I will pass you to Dr. linsay, who was a very learned col[…]
[…]nt boom operators. And if the boom moved, went there, he knew exactly was no messing around. And of course he was highly respected and lighting cameraman always lit for the boom in those days becauseAlan Lawson 4:19 if you had to.Michael Colomb 4:22 And that indeed was […]
[…]ly needed to go and earn some money so I had to leave. Got as many part-time jobs as I could and, eventually, saw in the Glasgow Herald an advert for Camera Assistant in the Educational Television Service. But it was coming up in eighteen months time. The same advert was also looking for Lab Assista[…]
