[…]y did go to art college. But there are people like myself who came in more from the background and particularly my father with a with a with a with a electronic engineering technological side. And the two of the things sort of still worked. I mean, we had other senior designers and then heads of dep[…]
[…]r was just like a Post Office Telephone exchange. I: Oh, right! R: But it worked alright! I do remember the cue dot though! [Cue Dot was an electronically generated tiny box which appeared top left or top right of the picture] There's a, a hanging basket with, not even a printed, sort of, […]
[…]id they have any kind of formal training? R: Yes, the training they had, in a formal way, was all hands-on, which was great, but City and Guilds Electronic Engineer Radio and Television Technicians Course - whatever that meant! But it was something that was pertinent to the job. And, as I say, […]
[…]eature films would be prepared on video tape and transmitted from tape to air. In the ‘90s, we had quite a lot of work, sort of, film post-production electronically gained more of a style so using machines to this one we have here [at The Flying Spot]. We would do post-production of film progra[…]
[…]here a two studio transmission with the set and the principal artists in one half and remote band.Gerald Chambers 10:15 One the principal electronic pizza I remember was in there was a girl dancer in in seven who was dancing I think on a blue coloured floor against the blue psych and tha[…]
[…]it was rising andfalling so the images were never steady enough to add anything on by process, not at thatperiod. Nowadays it would be very simple to electronically add a ship on it, but thereweren't the means in those days and by the time the film came back the money had runout and Sydney said we c[…]
[…]udent television society called Network 4 which used the studios in the professional centre. We'd make a weekly magazine programme and we also had an electronic news gathering kit as well. So I remember going out and directing a little story about the first release of “Star Wars” and interviewing pe[…]
[…]ghter] A little snack.Yes, a teensy little snack. One thing occurs, which is your advent into filming, which previously your experience has been with electronic cameras.DS: Yes, yes. I think, like everything at the start of my career, I was thrown into filming, I really knew very little about it at […]
