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Chris Menges (CM) Cinematographer Interviewers: Paul Frith (PF) & Keith Johnston (KJ) Date 10/05/2019 Total Length 01:26:43 Part One[00:00:09]PF: Well first off, thank you Chris for taking part in the interview today. I think we should begin where your interests in film […]
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BRITISH UNIVERSITIES FILM & VIDEO COUNCIL Interview with EDGAR ANSTEY I think it's interesting as background to consider the extent to which the original dress and philosophy er - was developed in the first instance by him and then er - was moved out, partly by his efforts, partly by the efforts[…]
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[…]Albans, and relatively young age moved to Surrey to a place where adults suddenly I'm sorry, and my dad was a draughtsman and heating and ventilating engineer, my mum had worked as a secretary and then bumped up the kids I went to, suddenly I went to work in grammar school at a time the 11 Plus was […]
[…]there as the as a sound trainee. So what its way in and I went there, and it was run by a very clever man called Eric Humphries, who was a electrical engineer Yeah, and he had developed his own sound recording system, which, in those days, everything was shot on optical sound. There was no magnetic […]
