Copyright is vested in the BECTU History ProjectFREDDIE FRANCIS, lighting cameraman, feature film director, interviewer Alan Lawson, recorded on 24 November 1993SIDE 1, TAPE 1Alan Lawson: When and where were you born?Freddie Francis: I was born in the wilds of North London, Barnesbury, north London […]
[…] was at that time I became associated with a wonderful camera operator called David Harcourt who you may remember Alan. I […]
[…] the film,making the film, was Nine Days A Queen and of course it was in the very early days ofsound. There was a sound booth on castors, there was a camera booth with glass windowsso everything had to., there were no tracking shots or panning shots of course. Thepanning shots were within the limits[…]
[…]bsp;CHARLES SMITH: Well, I was born in 1920, May, in Rugby in Warwickshire. And my father kept a photographic chemist's shop. And so we had, uh, sold cameras, and I served customers with films and loaded the cameras. [laughter] I was the boy for all the people who'd bought expensive cameras and then[…]
[…] he’d done quite a lot of television. I think mainly as an assistant, I don’t think he was a director.Daphne Shadwell DRAFT Page 53He was a cameraman, at WCAU in Philadelphia.DS: Was he? Was he? I never knew that. But I mean he was full of good ideas and of course they immediately put him […]
[…] bucket and tie that on in case.LH: So you became a Boom Operator, virtually?WR: Boom Operator, yes. What else? One – I think – then I became a sound camera operator.LH: Still at Ealing.WR: Still at Ealing. And it was about the third RCA – the third model that they had made – we seemed to have used […]
[…], no, you don't want to be an electrician. Go in the sound department" because I thought an electrician would do the lighting. But of course it's the camera man that does the lighting. So I applied, I applied to Pinewood and to Beaconsfield film studios, which was active studio at th[…]
[…]ed the first three of these at the Playhouse with with equipment which must have come from Alexandra Palace because it was breaking down you know one camera would go and it was live too. And, and Ronnie did the first three ... Mrs Hamilton 43:26 Will you go and eat s[…]
[…] was doing second unit, second camera. Ron Bicker was the camera operator and Peter Bucknall was the first assistant. I'm not […]
[…]nt boom operators. And if the boom moved, went there, he knew exactly was no messing around. And of course he was highly respected and lighting cameraman always lit for the boom in those days becauseAlan Lawson 4:19 if you had to.Michael Colomb 4:22 And that indeed was […]
