[…]ion to those people in the business, I went to the Islington Studios one morning where it so happened they were starting a new film and the assistant camera hadn't turned up on that day so they took me on, just like that.Wyn Ryder: When was that, what date about?Reggie Beck: I don't rememb[…]
[…]dist, Dallas Bower, how it was and he said fine except the sea was rather too loud, so I moderated it after that. There was an idea of going into the camera department and that didn't work. But I started learning something about editing because Thorold Dickinson was editing films there and I became […]
[…] He got a job at Welwyn Garden City as a camera operator. He was a very bright lad. And there […]
[…] He got a job at Welwyn Garden City as a camera operator. He was a very bright lad. And there […]
[…]ith that and because of Union demarcation and all the rest of it, I wasn't allowed even to make a copy photograph because that meant I was handling a camera! [05:30]But, so, they moved the photographic darkroom from Cowcaddens, which was based in the back shop of an old newspaper shop and the b[…]
[…]d was producing it and I was told that the person I had to interview was a long distance runner called Gordon Pirie. So we were sat on a sofa and the cameras as you will well recall were so wide angled that in order to get a reasonable shot of the head and shoulders they had to be only about two fee[…]
[…]o-writer of Jackson's Seven Keys in 1961 - is this correct?]John Legard: Henry BlythPat Jackson: Henry Blyth. He got a job at Welwyn Garden City as a camera operator. He was a very bright lad. And there was suddenly a vacancy for another camera assistant, so he rang me up and said, "Come on down, Pa[…]
[…] recruiting film, based on the meeting of the home and Mediterranean fleets. And in early 1937 March, I think I went off with the home fleet with two cameramen to film, that side of the manoeuvres, and two more cameramen have been sent out to Malta to join the Mediterranean Fleet to show the other s[…]
[…] from him at all, looking straight out ad at the camera while this chap was sitting out of sight as […]
Peter Mullins BEHP 0707 transcript.Interviewer: Darrol Blake (DB)Interviewee: Peter Mullins (PM)Other crew: Dan Thurley (camera); David Sharp Darrol Blake: So, can we begin by saying who you are, where you were born and when?Peter Mullins: Right. My name is Peter Mullins, I was born in London, […]