[…]as the turning point really - the turning point in my career00:08:28 there was that - er - they took a program from America called ‘Candid Camera’ 00:08:43 and - er - this was as you’ll probably know this was Jonathan Routh was going out and - er- involving people in jap[…]
[…]f our cutting rooms and also did their dubbing there. We did dub their newsreel, purely an army newsreel, and I believe those three personnel a was a camera man. I think I'm not sure what his Christian name, Michael, often his name was Noble, and two women officers who did a cutting, this, that and […]
[…]myself before the war,Unknown Speaker 1:26 if you know what I mean.Unknown Speaker 1:29 But anyway, I was apprenticed to be a camera mechanic without any indentures. Of course, family business. Yeah,Unknown Speaker 1:39 it was very good becauseUnknown Speaker &nbs[…]
[…]ason to be fried Noel. Then there was Peter cannon. There was a little chap connected with the collino brothers. He was but he was a brilliantly good cameraman, solid as a rock. I'm telling you, these were the first people I met. Then there was Ted Hawkins, who used to was with Paramount. Then he ca[…]
[…] BBC people and people in broadcasting from abroad, Nigeria, allover the world and I thought they would be jumping They did start by saying this is a camera and this is a boom. And they took you right the way through it and then you did your won training exercise at the end. I'd done a thing for the[…]
[…]2. And this is side one of the tape.John, you've had a career in the business lasting half a century. I know you started off in the camera department became a cameraman. And that you ended up as the producer of those specialised films 50 years is quite time, how did it all be[…]
[…]rs as it were from the age of five was the the total fascination of movies buying amateurCine world hiring movies getting hold of a little Cine camera which I was given when I was about 12 a secondhand one by my parents. Really it was 9.5 I think Pathe Moto camera BAlan Legard 12:38 &nbs[…]
[…]ng anything about the story or what it was about and just said 'Well put a few flats here and a few flats there and see what we can do.' The Lighting Cameraman would come and approve and it was all sort of built together between us.R. F. So you had no operating budget for the picture?C. D. Oh no bud[…]
[…] after that. There was an idea of going into the camera department and that didn't work. But I started learning […]
[…]contented smiles to their faces! At one stage in the afternoon of the day of the Premiere we had a foyer full of press, radio, a replica plane and TV cameras recording interviews when in walked Ted’s Regional Manager David Williams. He cornered me and asked what was going on. As I outlined everythin[…]
