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[…] Terraneau... Alan Lawson: Yes... Cyril Pennington-Richards: ...who I bought a camera off, fifty pounds, and we started. He had a […]

[…]e Formby show ever.  We did two huge ones, I can’t remember what they were, but they were live you see, and of course in those days you see, the camera scripts were very perfunctory; if indeed there were any.  And I was doing the gallery, and the way it was done, that you just had pages fo[…]

Cyril Pennington-Richards (cameraman and director) 17/12/1911 - 2/1/2005by admin — last modified Aug 12, 2008 12:43 PMBECTU History Project - Interview No. 122[Copyright BECTU] Transcription Date: 2003-08-13Interview Date: 1990-01-09Interviewer: Alan Lawson and Colin Moffat Inter[…]

[…]quite a thing in those days. I'm talking about 1934 or something like that, maybe 33. I got terrible interested in that and he gave me one of his old cameras, a 16mm Bell and Howell and that's how I started to be interested in cinematography. I made a sort of school newsreel. I talked the headmaster[…]

[…] the back door, we're calling her little boy and have tea. And I thought, well, now we shoot the mother at the back door, then you've got to turn the camera around, I suppose and shoot the little boy. But then when she answers him, you've got to turn the camera around and do it again. And I could ne[…]

[…]eaker  0:04  The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project.Unknown Speaker  0:10  Lionel Baynes, lighting cameraman, interviewer, Peter Sargent, recorded on the 28th of July, 1988Unknown Speaker  0:23  side one.Unknown Speaker  0:27  We[…]

[…]nd we started to band call it, and we got all that done. Then they went on rehearsing and I thought it's alright, I know where I am, I know where the cameras are going to be. And eventually the lead violinist came and said to me, can I have a word with you. I said certainly. He said unless20you move[…]

[…] photographed play. A wealth of talent: the sets by Oliver Messel and John Byron, not John Box I was going to say John Box.Rodney Giesler:Who was the cameraman?Roy Fowler:Freddy Young primarily.  A lot of people worked on it because it was so long in shooting and I remember Jack Cardiff be[…]

Alan Lawson, CameramanCopyright ACTT History ProjectSeptember 1987 Interviewer, Arthur Graham  Arthur Graham: Where and when were you born?Alan Lawson: I was born in Gidea Park, a suburb of Romford in July 1912, we moved to London 3 years later.Arthur Graham: Whereabouts?Alan Lawson: […]

[…]se piles of of corpses, all literally skeletons, just piled on top of each other, And these people with staring eyes and wearing rags, looking at the camera. I went it was, it was something that will live with you for the rest of your life. You will never, ever lose that Nick Gilbey  […]