[…] fun. And so, I suppose, I stayed at Pathé 2 years, 2 ? years, perhaps a bit longer, in Wardour Street. Enjoyed it. Got to know the cameramen. Got to know the film editors. And really liked the news aspects of the business. Film industry wasn’t of great interest t[…]
[…] he was one of their people, there as a sound camera operator. And there was er - oh I can't remember […]
[…] on working relations between different departments - the sound and camera departments for instance, and on the relations between the […]
Leonard Harris ( camera operator) 19/5/1916 - 1995 by admin — last modified Jul 27, 2008 02:16 PM BIOGRAPHY: Len Harris […]
[…]e Formby show ever. We did two huge ones, I can’t remember what they were, but they were live you see, and of course in those days you see, the camera scripts were very perfunctory; if indeed there were any. And I was doing the gallery, and the way it was done, that you just had pages fo[…]
[…] Bill Salter and I, and picked up the rest of the crew there, who happened to be, there was Les Hammond, he was one of their people, there as a sound camera operator. And there was er - oh I can't remember the mixers' names now, but one left and he went off to - Slim Hand, that was it, Slim Hand. He[…]
[…] that traditionally housed men’s labor, and women worked as projectionists, camera operators, still photographers, cinema evaluators and managers.[80] With regard to […]
[…] at the time and, later on in my career when I started doing film work, film news, for instance, was done with a three-man crew - lighting, sound and camera operator - unless it exceeded two minutes and the two minute rule then took it into what was called a feature and then the feature required eig[…]
[…]rocket holes, mend them. And then after a time one of the co-ops wanted a - they were having a fete and they said, "Can you send someone along with a camera to take a picture?" [Laughs] They gave me a camera, a 16mm camera - I'd never held one before! And I went out and I took pictures of the fete. […]
[…]ted me. Do you know he's got, in a way he's got thousands of pounds worth of equipment round there. It's all old and useless, but he gets hold of old cameras and puts them right again, or he's trying to do that. He's got an old Super Parvo Debrie, you know a thousand foot one. He has a Vinten Everes[…]
