[…]lkies started I did a course with RCA and I became a boom swinger to start with, you see? And then I realised, the only job in movies to have was the director, he had all the fun!Roy Fowler: Right.Vernon Sewell: So I set out to be a director and I set out to learn the business, and I becam[…]
Cyril Pennington-Richards (cameraman and director) 17/12/1911 - 2/1/2005by admin — last modified Aug 12, 2008 12:43 PMBECTU History Project - Interview No. 122[Copyright BECTU] Transcription Date: 2003-08-13Interview Date: 1990-01-09Interviewer: Alan Lawson and Colin Moffat Inter[…]
SIDNEY COLE, producer, director, editor, ACT pioneer, ACTT activist interviewed by Alan Lawsonc ACTT History Project 1987Tape 1 Side 1AL : Where and when viere you born?SC : I was born in Oakley St., Kennington not very far according to one report from where Charlie Chaplin was born. If the win[…]
[…]ality, so I came back to the United Kingdom and, forgive me if I digress at all, but my first movie was really quite… due to my photography because a director who was making a film, Kevin Brownlow, was making a film called It Happened Here and he needed a cinematographer and saw my photogr[…]
[…]ack Limelight out at ABC Studios, Boreham Wood, I said any chance of getting the job of your stand in. He said you'11 have to go along to the casting director. He said I'll speak to him. He came back the next night and said go along and see somebody called Anderson, and this chap obviously didn't wa[…]
[…]d so forth. But say you, say you finished at five thirty, I mean if you've been able to keep up during the day, I mean it's, again, it depends on the director, I mean you might do seven or eight shots a day you might do twenty, and it depends how you have been able to keep up as to how many hours yo[…]
[…]he princes arm of two pound 10 a week. I went back to them in the May of 39 at two pounds 10 per week, and stayed there as secretary to the publicity director for three years and again, Fox British lives, but they did get me across to Pinewood to work with Hugh Alexander, who would publicity for 20t[…]
[…]lots and action sequences! My temporary appointment with Films of Scotland may also have come about due to the good relationship I developed with its director H Forsyth Hardy during the Film Festival selection committee viewings and by willingly helping him out on a “stunt” he came up with for the P[…]
[…] Mac in the family – he was never an uncle but in those days you called everybody uncle. He turned out to be David MacDonald who was a reputable film director in those days. I went down to Lime Grove studios with my dad and sat on the set. In his chair. And started work next Monday. In the scenic ar[…]
[…] Alan LawsonTranscriber: Alexis PooleNorman Swallow: Copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Julia Cave, television director and producer. Interviewer Norman Swallow. Recorded on the 10th of May, 1996. Side 1. Side 10:32 Norman Swallow: Right. So, J[…]
