[…] ten minutes. Even more, sometimes.’ I thought, ‘Goodness! I’ve got to learn it like a play – not just little snippets.’ The thing was, they had four cameras, and one camera would sort of take over from the other one as you walked about the set. It was –JR: A bit unnerving, wasn’t it?VM: It was unne[…]
[…] school I went to I became very friendly with them. Another chapter has gone into films and Boys Life and shackled margin. And we have actually had a camera. So we made mo vies and great movies. When we were eight onwards I was under the influence with those two men. The chapter moved away. From. We[…]
[…]k much of that. So I win my holidays I went to Ealing Studios to see if I could get a job and I was 14 and they said yes they can get me a job in the camera department. And I came back and announced the fact that I was going to leave school and go to to Ealing and that caused another family crisis a[…]
[…]nd of thing. I don't remember the secrets of life and Secrets of Nature. Yes. Nature. That's right. Yes. Do you remember the these two specials cameraman will supply the material? PercySmith first? Oh, yes. Percy Smith was a minor so slight science. boffins only one man he was able to do. Yes,[…]
[…]hose days was three pounds ten, and I got five shillings a week.DB. So did you look at the various things going on on the set and decide that being a cameraman was what you wanted to go for, as opposed to the sound, or stage management, or something else?PS. I never took the slightest interest in an[…]
[…]of the rushes and Vera took the other half and I joined them up and the rushes were to be at 7 o'clock in the evening then, and there was an American cameraman, American producer and everyone sat round in theatre, and it all started off well and suddenly it came upside down because I joined the othe[…]
[…] departments at Gaumont and Gainsborough, he ended at in the camera department G-B Instructional working with Lewis Gilbert on documentary […]
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[…] not Gabriel Pascal, who was there theoretically as the director, but David Lean (who was the technical director), Ronnie Neame (who was the official cameraman, but he was very much involved with the shots with David, and of course they worked together like a piece of beautiful clockwork), and Charl[…]
