Peter Dimmock

[…] at school for various magazines and submit them and mostly got rejections, but some of them got published.  And then - you know where I carried cameras later one because I started to drive. I think you were sixteen and half you were allowed to drive a little car = I always carried a camera wit[…]

Barbara (Bimbi) Harris

[…]t is vested in the BECTU History Project. Barbara Harris was interviewed by Roy Fowler with John Hamilton on 30 August 1989. 1. Early television cameras and vision mixersRF: Was the next thing into television?BH: Yes, into television. Television started in 1946 and I with a lot of the others ap[…]

Kay Mander

[…]words to that effect! And they wanted an interpreter, a German interpreter - English-German interpreter - for Hans Schneeberger, who was the lighting cameraman on 'Conquest of the Air', (I can't remember who... Yes, that's right,...) and he had a focus puller called Karl Matthews. That's important b[…]

Muriel Cole

[…];1:09  We were at West Kirby. Yes,Speaker 1  1:13  we had to have a bathing beauty competition. I remember that rather psyched all the camera staff, etc up, but dear Brian was he wasn't in the least interested, except that he'd got to judge this competition, and when the girls are bei[…]

Bryan Langley

[…]ragm and then you'd mark the frame, wind back and put it in the can. You would write down where it was shot, where the sun was and where to point the camera. Years later, when I arrived, these cans would be produced and I was told to go to a certain place - I can't remember if any frames were d[…]

Transcript – Jean Anderson

[…] of everybody, he was so funny. You couldn’t turn the camera on him, without getting something quite remarkable. John Legard: […]

Margaret Dale

[…]was an outside broadcast? Live?MD: No, no! They didn’t go into the theatre as I recall, OBs were not so sophisticated in those days. I don’t remember cameras at the Wells ever. I have here-D H Munro for The Three Bears, Elizabeth Colwell for The Selfish Giant, D H Munro for The Sleeping Princess 25t[…]

Nancy Thomas

[…]d I was usually asked to act or something like that, you know, to take part as contributing rather than as actually pressing any buttons or directing cameras. So I’d done that and when ’55 came and they, you know, they were very short of hands, they asked would people who had any sort of knowledge o[…]

Stephen Peet

fm10001.mp3[00:00:02] The copyright of this recording is vested in the A C T T history project. Stephen Peet cameraman, television director, television producer, lecturer. Recorded on the 6th of November 1990. INTERVIEWER Norman Swallow with Alan Lawson. Side one.[00:00:36] I: Stephen, when where yo[…]
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