Moira Armstrong

This transcription was provided in 2015 by the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, Leeds University) and Dr Vicky Ball (Co-Investigator, De Montfort University).BECTU History Project Interview no: N/K Inter[…]

Esther Harris

[…]ight lad. We had a very big Art Department but just doing our own trailer work but we were also given some main titles, we used to do main titles for features.Y es.And George would, George as an art, as head of Art Department would be very instrumental in that.Oh.And we had our own camera rooms, our[…]

F E (Ernie) Diamond

[…] it said centre actors can still go with that and they got a shot there of the polar bear coming towards the camera out of Arizona coming towards the camera. So from that come out from the dark and doing underlay is icy Yes. So, start here to go back down to there. then then then it's our business. […]

Jean Anderson

[…]dy lover Stella I played the role and narrated the film. In those days if you needed to get in close up you had to get into this enormous hood on the camera. I was in my late thirties, but had to play the character as an eighty year old. I start the film in close up, telling the viewer what it was l[…]

Joy Batchelor

BECTU History Project - Interview No. 294 [Copyright BECTU] Transcription Date: 2004-03-18Interview Date: 1972-05 Interviewers: Jim ShieldsInterviewee: Kay Mander  Kay Mander: Joy, could we start with when and where you were born?Joy Batchelor: I was born in Watford, and at […]

Jack Rockett

[…] butter very much. But I wouldn't allow anybody in, I said, "Yes you can go in but your camera must stay outside." I wouldn't allow anybody in with a camera. And so when the show was finished and coming out, they then whipped the people up and they were chasing them down the promenade and that sort […]

Sidney Cole

[…]inclair Hill that had a tracking shot on 'The First Mrs. Fraser'. In those days, on a shot like that the microphone boom would be stuck on top of the camera. And I remember Gunther Krampf, the cameraman, refusing to allow this to happen. He wasn't going to make any concession to sound. Consequently,[…]

Jack Rockett

[…] must stay outside." I wouldn't allow anybody in with a camera. And so when the show was finished and coming out, […]

sidney-cole-transcript-1987

[…] the microphone boom would be stuck on top of the camera. And I remember Gunther Krampf, the cameraman, refusing to allow […]
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