[…]d was producing it and I was told that the person I had to interview was a long distance runner called Gordon Pirie. So we were sat on a sofa and the cameras as you will well recall were so wide angled that in order to get a reasonable shot of the head and shoulders they had to be only about two fee[…]
[…] from him at all, looking straight out ad at the camera while this chap was sitting out of sight as […]
[…]The University's audio visual unit was very supportive of Unit Sixty Five and let us use their studio at lunchtimes and also let us borrow their film camera from time to time. Jim Harold, who was the head of the audio visual unit let us borrow an Arri ST and my friend and I at university shot […]
[…]n 7:41Joe. They the king of Greece for as being shown around the studios by Joe with a little entourage behind him. And Joe was indicating this cameras and this new sound equipment and they've got in and so on and so forth. Then you turn ratio but of course you manage all this must be Greek to[…]
[…]en I got a job with an American filmmaker called Alan Forbes. Alan made documentary films. He was in London and he taught me about editing, and about camera operating, and about sound, and basically was a very committed filmmaker. And, God, I was lucky to work with somebody who was so inspirational […]
[…]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[…]
fm10001.mp3[00:00:02] The copyright of this recording is vested in the A C T T history project. Stephen Peet cameraman, television director, television producer, lecturer. Recorded on the 6th of November 1990. INTERVIEWER Norman Swallow with Alan Lawson. Side one.[00:00:36] I: Stephen, when where yo[…]
[…]rough film had they?VG: I should imagine so.RF: Any further memories of BIP.VG: It was a great big barn of a place and they had the sound stages. Our cameras of course were all in little rollable booths.RF: Still, in 1932?VG: Yes, they were inside these little booths and they were pushed here and th[…]
[…]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[…]
