[…]p; Well not, Jack Dooley, the stills man, was always a bit gritty but I don't think he meant to be I just think he felt you know, being a stills camera man in a movie films [LAUGHTER] ... Roy Fowler 29:40 Yeah, it's true the stills man always has been somewhat a disgr[…]
[…]ot is Safe, it was a five-minuter, and it was about the air-sea rescue boats. And I went with, as his assistant and as assistant to Skeets Kelly, the cameraman, in those days there were just three of us. And I also looked after the budget - I was now sixteen, sixteen and-a-half, seventeen. So I was […]
[…]hing I got very interested in photography. I was always very keen on photography. So I eventually, for my thirteenth birthday, I actually got a Leica camera. And we came to England. sJohn Legard: What school did you go to - you were at school.. ..Teddy Darvas: Gymnasium which is like a gra[…]
[…]I ask John, what kind of equipment were using then ? John Halas: it varied. You remember 8mm, 9.5, that was one of them. And as soon as the 16mm camera came in, 16mm. 35mm came later. But when I established our own studio with my young colleagues, we already had a German bi- pack camera, and th[…]
[…] had our orchestra and things like that. Other things beside games, but there's nothing really. The only thing I had was a ciné camera. I had a Pathé Baby, motorised, but, of course, you only got one lens, and very limited. Roy Fowler 6:00 […]
[…]k to me when he died. I started - as far as going into photography and filmmaking, when I was thirteen. I think for my bar mitzvah I received two box cameras, two cameras, and started with photography and set up a dark room and started doing printing and developing films and so forth. And I think I […]
[…]ie 32:24 on. Anyway, they were shooting over there and they come to a break in the break in the shoot even though we're preparing a camera ready, and all that but a still camera that could be shot I say it was her birthday. And they they put the blokes up to it. And this bloke Come[…]
[…]Being in this film printers they also taught me how to wind film onto the drum like they had in those days for drying. Bryan Langley was a well-known cameraman, he was also working for my father and he taught me how to turn a camera, in those days 16 frames.SC: Because it was silent days still.RP: S[…]
