[…] recruiting film, based on the meeting of the home and Mediterranean fleets. And in early 1937 March, I think I went off with the home fleet with two cameramen to film, that side of the manoeuvres, and two more cameramen have been sent out to Malta to join the Mediterranean Fleet to show the other s[…]
[…]that was Chicago and Florida. Well they needed to know how many times I'd worked with a director before, and how many times I've worked with the same cameraman before, if I've worked with any of the other people before. All the films I'd done, and various things and with whom, so I sent them thatlis[…]
[…]ion near St Albans and I loved every minute of it and couldn't wait to get next to the producer as he was called in those days, the director, and the cameraman and others. I wanted to learn all I could, I think I must have made a hell of a nuisance of myself. The director, Percy Nash was a very tole[…]
[…] little bit, y ou know, in the projector, in the camera: if it’s absolutely rock -steady you should be suspicious. […]
[…]ry ProjectInterview no: 578Interviewee: Diane Tammes [IMDb/BFI spelling]Interviewers: Nicky North, Elaine Burrows – not verbally identified Cameraman: Graham Whittaker[ph] [G]Date: No date is given for this interviewDuration: 1:23:42COPYRIGHT: No use may be made of any interview material w[…]
[…] you to photography or was it something you picked up yourself?CL: I think it started when my brother Jack brought me a Kodak, one of the small Kodak cameras of the time. And I was thirteen and I had six sisters.NA: (laughs) Six sisters!CL: Which were all very photographic. So I had quite a model ag[…]
[…]p;been given the job with Peter Hennessy of all people who was after all a cameraman. We were slammed into the cutting room in a hurry. The doctor upper cu[…]
[…] demand … you knew there was a demand then but they must have been planning for an increased demand for technicians, editors - I mean it was editors, cameramen and recordists they wanted at the time. AL It was also empire building. JG Well maybe, it could be, but whatever i mean it w[…]
[…]words to that effect! And they wanted an interpreter, a German interpreter - English-German interpreter - for Hans Schneeberger, who was the lighting cameraman on 'Conquest of the Air', (I can't remember who... Yes, that's right,...) and he had a focus puller called Karl Matthews. That's important b[…]
[…]to ask for a job, in photography, and was told to start the next day in the laboratory working for Harvey Harrison; after a year, Harvey took over as cameraman in the studios so FY was left in charge of the laboratory; FY talks about processing film in the early days using frames; after a year, the […]
