[…]t is vested in the BECTU History Project. Barbara Harris was interviewed by Roy Fowler with John Hamilton on 30 August 1989. 1. Early television cameras and vision mixersRF: Was the next thing into television?BH: Yes, into television. Television started in 1946 and I with a lot of the others ap[…]
[…] I got it. I didn't know the first thing about camera work or anything or what was involved in it. […]
[…]ith that and because of Union demarcation and all the rest of it, I wasn't allowed even to make a copy photograph because that meant I was handling a camera! [05:30]But, so, they moved the photographic darkroom from Cowcaddens, which was based in the back shop of an old newspaper shop and the b[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…] school I went to I became very friendly with them. Another chapter has gone into films and Boys Life and shackled margin. And we have actually had a camera. So we made mo vies and great movies. When we were eight onwards I was under the influence with those two men. The chapter moved away. From. We[…]
[…]heaply make your own films. My father probably winced a bit at the thought of more, more outlaying. But he did find the a fairly cheap 9.5 millimetre camera made by the British brands of branch of pathway brothers. School, the path is scope. And I had no idea about editing or anything, I just liked […]
[…]heaply make your own films. My father probably winced a bit at the thought of more, more outlaying. But he did find the a fairly cheap 9.5 millimetre camera made by the British brands of branch of pathway brothers. School, the path is scope. And I had no idea about editing or anything, I just liked […]
[…]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[…]
[…]that he handed it over to me to direct those sequences. And when I say direct, I mean rehearse them and direct it with the actors and then he put the cameras on it. But I had all that responsibility in those days, and I was so fascinated by the editing, that I used to spend every minute I could in t[…]
[…] at school for various magazines and submit them and mostly got rejections, but some of them got published. And then - you know where I carried cameras later one because I started to drive. I think you were sixteen and half you were allowed to drive a little car = I always carried a camera wit[…]
