[…]t in film technology begin? What sparked that interest and how did it develop?AM: Yes. At the age of about 10 I was given a classic Kodak Box Brownie camera by my Aunt Nellie for Christmas and I started taking black and white photographs on that. And it wasn’t very long before I decided that I was i[…]
[…]and I remember that, after I had been there for about a month, Jack Chambers… oh, and there was Wolf Suschitzky who was there too. TD: The cameraman. AY: The cameraman, he was a part of this group and Jack Chambers said to me: “Would you like to go and make a film up.. and make[…]
[…] of mine, Les Young, who I’d known from being a camera operator, he was on Her Private Hell which was his […]
[…]It was well - Graham Sarpe and Sidney Rodman - Graham Sarpe did most of the direction - I was sort of supervising it and, and Stanley Rodwell was the cameraman. It was well photographed, it's reasonably well edited, it has a rather conventional sort of commentary on it. Er - but it was a good, strai[…]
[…]So the next obvious stage for me really was that I wanted to start making films. And so, for another birthday, thank God, Pathéscopeproduced a little camera called the Pathé Pat and it was six guineas, so that waswithin the range of my father, if he got it on HP [Hire Purchase] he could actuall[…]
[…]as an extraordinary drunken affair because instead of serving drinks and canopies, they just let bottles of whiskey out on the table. But anyway, the cameraman on that event was Jerry Lewis, who I worked with frequently after that. Now because of this thing of just going off and holding a hand lamp […]
[…]d I was usually asked to act or something like that, you know, to take part as contributing rather than as actually pressing any buttons or directing cameras. So I’d done that and when ’55 came and they, you know, they were very short of hands, they asked would people who had any sort of knowledge o[…]
