[…] Interview No. 421[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: TBCInterview Date: 1997-10-09Interviewer: Alan LawsonInterviewee: John TurnerJOHN TURNER, news cameramanTape 1, Side 1Alan Lawson: First, John, when and where were you born?John Turner: I was born in Hampstead actually, yes, I'm a Londoner I'm g[…]
[…]n quarter inch tape. That was all we had. And we had a sound mixer, a lady who did sound mixing Plus she was Secretary of Hugh Baddley as well. And a cameraman Brian Tucker.We part again, part of my duties was assisting all those people in various things. We've made educational films quite a few edu[…]
[…] in all of Cornelius’s later films, including I Am A Camera (1955), and Next To No Time (1959). Masters worked […]
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[…]ation that was related to the scenes that they were doing, if there was anything wrong, we would promote the fact that “There’s a hair in the gate on camera 4 on that shoot with the 5 cameras”, “That one there doesn’t look good” or “There’s an issue with your lighting” you know. I think it was First[…]
[…]ot is Safe, it was a five-minuter, and it was about the air-sea rescue boats. And I went with, as his assistant and as assistant to Skeets Kelly, the cameraman, in those days there were just three of us. And I also looked after the budget - I was now sixteen, sixteen and-a-half, seventeen. So I was […]
[…]e. And the film department, you can't do that, it's too, too long, you cannot do it in one day. I said if there is good preparation for it and a good cameraman he can do it in one hour. Because only one shot. And Tubby Englander, a great standby and co-worker, apart from Peter Sargent, did it in one[…]
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