Bill Girdlestone

[…]s, you know, William Jury's company, who donated Glebelands, incidentally. And the first thing he did was send his son, Adolph, who became a newsreel cameraman to ask if I'd go and join him. And I bargained with him, I was getting a pound a week at Worton Hall and I managed to get him up to 35 bob, […]

Mat Irvine

[…]vant. Interesting after work in the photo library for news originally. I think the qualifications were, do you know what a photo is? Well, I've got a camera. I think that basically got me in. But it was a time for Apollo and because I'd done a lot of modelmaking of Apollo craft, and Apollo 12 came a[…]

Jimmy Nairn

[…]R: Well, when I started, which was, I think, early August, I can't remember the exact date but the people there were learning as they went along. The cameramen, for example, had been stills cameramen in newspapers I think and various different things and one of them, whose name I remember clearly (I[…]

Esther Harris

[…] es.And the London studios were working.Did they have editing rooms and things like that?Oh yes, indeed, we had cutting rooms.Y es.Oh absolutely. And camera rooms we used to go out on opticals. Oh yes, we, in fact we used to work for other people too.Y es.But we had, we had optical rooms, animators.[…]

Carmen Dillon

[…]ersmith.Carmen Dillon: It's lovely.Sidney Cole: Oh it's a marvellous play. But tell me about Hamlet because I was very friendly, and very fond of the cameraman on that - Desmond Dickinson.Carmen Dillon: Oh yes.Sidney Cole: Who got an Oscar for that.Carmen Dillon: Yes I know. We loved Desmond. He was[…]

John Shearman

[…]el, and one or two others, started making films.Unknown Speaker  3:18  They usedUnknown Speaker  3:20  topical press agency had a camera man andUnknown Speaker  3:26  a rather good man called Mr. Oliver. We never knew his first name,Unknown Speaker  3:32  and […]
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