[…]hrew in the job to go and do that and and I it was advertised. It was this little company called crosswind films, basically an American guy who had a camera and a Nagra, and he had, like, his little 16 mil camera and inaugural, and he had some a few lights, and he set himself up in whopping in a lit[…]
[…]Williams 2:22Yes, I was cutting room assistant dead cutting room assistant for some months. But having shot Hadrian's Wall with a 16 millimetre camera, I was able to shoot as well. So a job turned up which involved two years in Aden in the desert, covering an industrial project, and of course,[…]
[…] es.And the London studios were working.Did they have editing rooms and things like that?Oh yes, indeed, we had cutting rooms.Y es.Oh absolutely. And camera rooms we used to go out on opticals. Oh yes, we, in fact we used to work for other people too.Y es.But we had, we had optical rooms, animators.[…]
[…]companies that overstaffed to begin with, and they were now shedding staff. So it was even worse and I'd applied to the BBC to get a job as a trainee cameraman and failed that. I mean, I, you know, they'd ask if you're a member of a camera club, or I mean, it was bizarre trying to get into televisio[…]
[…]us Station and I said no, I'd rather do Petticoat Lane. So they agreed that I could do Petticoat Lane as a little tiny short essay. And I went with a cameraman who was very famous in those days, Tubby Englander and I knew in my heart of hearts that I was auditioning and they were going to ask Tubby […]
[…]o you remember?I’m not sure whether Arthur Crabtree was the director.1: Oh yes, I think he was, that’s right.And Reg Wyer, I’m not sure if he was the cameraman this time, my memory’s a bit goneto those days at the moment.1: I have the same problem. [laughter] Oh yes. But how many films did you […]
[…]ns and packed a lot of gear. A great deal of it. Packers were called in you know, and shippers to put it all into crates, television sets, television camera or as we called it then. I mean it didn't really call it camera but it's what you'd call a camera now. Now it was a huge scanning disk, you kno[…]
[…]nd of thing. I don't remember the secrets of life and Secrets of Nature. Yes. Nature. That's right. Yes. Do you remember the these two specials cameraman will supply the material? PercySmith first? Oh, yes. Percy Smith was a minor so slight science. boffins only one man he was able to do. Yes,[…]
