[…]ted to have a chat with your director...trouble is with some of them to get them to communicate.John Legard: And did you have your favourite lighting cameraman to do your work justice as it were? I mean, did you have favourite people then?Peggy Gick: Well I only worked on [such] a lot of small films[…]
[…] the actual business of laboratory, but were sort of trainee people. One was Ian grant. No, wasn't Ian grant, somebody Grant, who eventually became a camera man. Another one was Ian squire, J squire son, all of him later, because I did gigs with him, because he put me into the Oh God. He put me into[…]
[…]e sense that a lot of the people who subsequently I found on joining Rediffusion were heads of Section like john and Vic Gardner Campbell was head of cameras and various other people like that, for whom when I came to my board with Rediffusion I was able to quote them and i i think that gave me a gr[…]
[…]nbsp;encouraged me. And in a very short time I was working on one of their cameras. You. Know doing announcements for like. Teas chocolates will be served at fo[…]
[…]sed to cost threepence in those days.Rodney Giesler: Also it wasn't a total film fan magazine. What I liked about it were the stories from behind the camera. They always gave you a list of films in production, and I thought I'd love to get round a studio and see what's happening. So I looked at the […]
[…]ormanville 7:19 later, we got together Don Lobos live with me, commonly in Whipsnade. Anyway, I went down to Shell applied for a job as a camera assistany at three pounds five a week. Believing in fact that it was essential to learn the camera side that I wanted to be a director eventual[…]
[…]name ?) '4711' Cream for hands - my hands were used and...everything like that. This went on for ages and I learnt the industry slowly, you know. The cameramen interested me...there was Phil Ross, Lesley Everley, Bert Ford.Sidney Cole: Oh, one of the Fords, yes?Tilly Day: Old Bert Ford, ye[…]
[…] I liked about it were the stories from behind the camera. They always gave you a list of films in […]
[…] photography. Sidney Cole: You mean, how many turns of the camera? Tilly Day: Yes, how many to count back. Because […]
[…]on when I was in the studio.Well I knew absolutely nothing. I was a complete spectator to start off with, but then I noticed that the guys behind the camera seemed to be doing the most interesting stuff. 7 mins PB-C: And so I was taught to load 1000 foot magazines and all that sort of thin[…]