[…]out people in the in the blitz using actual people like taxi drivers and people who have bombed out. These again were shown in cinemas the support to features I think, to maintain morale. Humphrey Jennings was also there, who was an explosive in tolerant totally inhuman person to who I was assigned […]
[…]ltry but then I did things like go to the Highland Show and follow the Queen Mother round about and write cover/colour pieces on that so I became the Features Editor very quickly at the Scottish Farmer. I stayed there for two years and felt, was well aware that it was quite a restricted place to be […]
[…]… AY: Yes, yes TD: Have gone. AY: Well no, you still need… you still have three. Maintenance… if you want maintenance on a camera. Hasn’t changed and awful lot. It changed a bit but the sound people… of course there’s not so many people on sound but, you know, […]
[…]d break up and fall down while the thing smoke and everything like that because he was fine and then the camera would have to track right in the main camera. So the bedding was terrific and we everything was carefully rehearsed except the actual thing so and finally about one in the morning, ever we[…]
[…];side and seventeen and a half mil magnetic on the other it was a combined camera. You know that way. Bit of a tank of a thing to lug about. But […]
[…]olour negative started making it's impact about1953 onwards and by 1955 nobody wanted a Technicolor camera. […]
[…]making tea and things like that, to load the magazines with film. It was Western Electric system. They were Mitchell magazines just as we used on the camera. But as it was positive stock it was used for sound recording at least we could have a red light in the darkroom so it was not quite such an or[…]
[…]ld to do anything specific, to speak up or not to speak up, I can't remember any of that, it all seemed to go alright.RF: And was there more than one camera.VG: On some shots, only on some, otherwise it was mostly one camera.RF: And it was conventional set ups.VG: Yes.RF: Were you bitten by films by[…]
[…] the time... But how actually did he work? What could you discem about the way he created what he was creating from where you were?PS. The use of the camera. He was very... way up... in the use of the camera, and he could even tell you the focal length of the lens to use, and when we went to Switzer[…]
