[…]e?Phil Noel-Baker.Noel-Baker, yes. Yes, well they asked me to get a film of him speaking and he was speaking somewhere up at Leyton.Ah.And I took the camera and the lights and I got a close-up of him giving his speech. I sent it off to them and when they put it out on their television they said it w[…]
[…]the Ram Gopal film too with a totally Indian unit.What was their reaction to you, the actual unit? Did they accept you just like that?The documentary cameraman did, but not the features, you know. I mean it was a very...I was very cut off, I mean I just had to get on with it as best I could. But it […]
[…] weeks.BA: 3 weeks.BE: No, I expect it was a bit more than that but we used to think in terms of 3 or 4 weeks, that was a lot.BA: Do you know who the cameraman was.BE: It was Jimmy Wilson who did a lot of Mr Baxter's films. I don’t know if you knew him but he was a very quiet, unlike a filmmaker rea[…]
[…]ected yourself with any kind of production work or..15A Oh, when we were are at Blackheath, the GPO, I was sometimes asked to do a commentary and two camera boys - well, - they were big shots - I loathed them and they made fun of me, you know, and I did little bits of dialogue here and there down at[…]
8 June 2010 Interviewer: Mike Dick Interviewee: Joy Cuff Camera Ruth Bolland Roll 1 0:00:04.7 MIKE: The copyright of this […]
[…]d they weren’t going to give it to him. No I thought he was doing rather well, in those days. But- DB: So that took you on the other side of the camera. GG: Took me on the other side of the camera. DB: Tell us about that: what did you discover? How different was it?GG: It was extraord[…]
[…]e, by the time you got to Fanny by Gaslight, which the records say were partly made at Lime Grove and partly at Islington. Do you remember any of the cameramen or sound people there? You mentioned Basil earlier?JK: Yes Basil, I suppose I remember that because of the name. Dougy Slocombe, he wa[…]
[…]in this house with Robert Donat and she was terrified of Leslie having it off with every other girl he worked with and Vie Lett used to be behind the camera and never took her eyes off me. Leslie was wonderful and taught me everything about film. He said don't let them fuss you; the important thing […]
