[…] been a vehicle to get her into production. I don't know, Jackie was going on to become I think she was a direct entry engineer. She had already done Electronic Engineering at University and she was going to become an engineer. So she was quite unique as well. The lady who was sharing my part that i[…]
[…]ifferent yet, because B gallery had a projection out where the the 35 millimeter camera was underneath, but a gallery looked sideways, and electronics, EMI control room had the vision mixing panel right at the very back, immediately in front of the vision mixing panel, and down a step was[…]
[…]er that in the twenties, I always say that the twenties was a wood age, the thirties was just coming into steel age and the forties, fifties were the electronic age. I went through the lot didn't I? They were crude old wood ages, I mean everything was crude. Walt Disney's early films were crude! If […]
[…]oing to go into those reasons. One of the reasons why am I getting the job I think was because I had a passion for and an interest in what are called electronic music, that's to say, music made by electronic means, which we tend to call electro acoustic. Anyhow. The job itself when I finally got it,[…]
[…]you've got this tug and the tanker has to look as though it's burning. So they've got big outriggers on the tanker with about 100 smoke bombs already electronically worked out. You've got a camera crew on there lashed to the mast trying to film this. Like you've got Carol griping because the sumbari[…]
[…]ing the opposite way, tilting, you know you always had to think opposite to your eye.RF: But the cameraman's viewfinder was an optical system, not an electronic system?BH: No absolutely ground glass.RF: Was it reflex, was it through the lens or through another lens?BH: No, through the lens.RF: Was t[…]
[…]on, there's got to be a strong union, there's got to be a clear minded union. And that sometimes worries me, the film medium, you mean, as opposed to electronic? Yes, yes, I very much hope so I like the stuff, and I meet a lot of I meet several people who began their lives in television, who long fo[…]
[…] I knew it I would probably want to do it, but to go into it now, I don't know, it's not an industry, it doesn't... I don't mind there being a lot of electronic stuff, which I'm not particularly well up in, but I daresay I could learn, get around that. But it's just this, sort of the subject matter,[…]
[…]ix months and train him. He’s got the skill as a precision engineer but he didn’t know anything about Panaflex cameras. And of course later, the elec electronics that go with cameras. And we had to train them, which was hugely expensive because you’ve got to not only pay their salary, you’ve got to […]
