[…]f June 2016. The interviewee is Howard Lanning, president of the British cinema and television veterans, the interviewer is Derek Threadgall. And the camera man, Steve booksmith. Look good so far. Okay. And we were put in here is three times started 3pm. Okay. Okay, right. So now we'll go to you How[…]
[…]ell that's al right. And later on in life he was the same about photography because I wanted to photograph, and I found an extraordinary old Sinclair camera, about 18" by you know... that was all made of mahogany and I used to love this thing and I used to look at it. I didn’t know how to use it, bu[…]
[…]ts and any other event which happened to take place.Peter Musgrave: What do you think formed or provoked this interest. Were there relatives who used cameras a lot?John Aldred: It's in the family because my grandfather was a great photographer in 1880s and 1890s and going back to that era and he was[…]
[…]nice about this, it’s a modesty really, because the English can’t show off. They get too self-conscious. They can sing in church but once you put the cameras in on a Sunday morning, they’re all looking anywhere but [at the camera]. It’s self-consciousness. This is why I’m worried about next year’s O[…]
[…]to ask for a job, in photography, and was told to start the next day in the laboratory working for Harvey Harrison; after a year, Harvey took over as cameraman in the studios so FY was left in charge of the laboratory; FY talks about processing film in the early days using frames; after a year, the […]
[…] job as a cameraman; learning to use a Newman Sinclair camera; beginning work as a war correspondent; World War II: […]
[…]. They were under the counter so I got known by the local tobacconist and used to have an order from the person in the sound department and the cameraman and the people in the office and – 10 Players here and 10 Woodbine so I used to have a big shopping list. Getting cigarettes was[…]
[…]we didn’t go overboard I don’t know. Mind you, we rather enjoyed our predicament sometimes because the first time we went out we really tied down the Camera, it was a very narrow little boat. And we had Ted Lockhart who was an old sailor and we thought we were absolutely safe, the way everything was[…]
[…] He used Western Electric equipment at Denham. Worked as sound camera loader? At Denham he was involved in organising the […]
[…]The University's audio visual unit was very supportive of Unit Sixty Five and let us use their studio at lunchtimes and also let us borrow their film camera from time to time. Jim Harold, who was the head of the audio visual unit let us borrow an Arri ST and my friend and I at university shot […]
