[…]f our cutting rooms and also did their dubbing there. We did dub their newsreel, purely an army newsreel, and I believe those three personnel a was a camera man. I think I'm not sure what his Christian name, Michael, often his name was Noble, and two women officers who did a cutting, this, that and […]
[…]was an outside broadcast? Live?MD: No, no! They didn’t go into the theatre as I recall, OBs were not so sophisticated in those days. I don’t remember cameras at the Wells ever. I have here-D H Munro for The Three Bears, Elizabeth Colwell for The Selfish Giant, D H Munro for The Sleeping Princess 25t[…]
[…]ch was a favourite. And so I got you know, that was the magic of cinema to me from an earlier age. And also, I was involved with film in front of the camera because he was a keen amateur filmmaker. He was a founding member of the amateur film, amateur Film Society. I saw the Wycombe amateur Film Clu[…]
[…]ragm and then you'd mark the frame, wind back and put it in the can. You would write down where it was shot, where the sun was and where to point the camera. Years later, when I arrived, these cans would be produced and I was told to go to a certain place - I can't remember if any frames were d[…]
[…]e big cavernous thing with so wooden plaster thing in the middle and lots of lights on and a kindly gentleman said Would you like to look through the camera. So I peered through the camera. This suddenly became a submarine with sailors at their posts and it was all very exciting. I thought this is r[…]
[…]rs as it were from the age of five was the the total fascination of movies buying amateurCine world hiring movies getting hold of a little Cine camera which I was given when I was about 12 a secondhand one by my parents. Really it was 9.5 I think Pathe Moto camera BAlan Legard 12:38 &nbs[…]
[…]il had a small film unit for training under Waterloo which worked outside the union until the railways were nationalised; DW mentions Basil Sangster, cameraman; DW’s first job at Southern Rail was to catalogue their archive.00:12:00 – 00:23:30 DW moved on to British Transport Films, where he started[…]
[…]jector?
I guess it was, yes. Yes, it was a fair...
Yes, it was the most usual I think in those days.
Yes. Yah. And then my father had a 16mm camera that, he used to take photographs of us as kids.
Mhm.
Which I still have. And...
Will they surface at the BAFTA [inaudible]? [laughs]
[…]
[…]that happened. So I've continued in that position until the present day, although the title has changed a couple of times. And after a few years, the camera department of the studio which had been headed by Bert, Easy that Bert Easy. I think he retired and then like Alan Wadley abruptly diedand that[…]
