[…]troduce myself my name is Nigel ArthurCL: My name is Cornel Arthur (laughs)NA: We’ve met before. I’m the curator of the stills library at the British Film Institute. Cornel you’re a world renowned stills photographer, so obviously there’s an affinity between us. I wondered if we could go right back […]
Side 1 Ralph Bond 0:00 This is a tape recording with three ACTT members who have spent all or most of their working life in film laboratories. We have Bert Craik, Sam Williams, and Alf Cooper. And we're going to discuss the many, many changes that have taken place both in technical […]
Side 1Ralph Bond 0:00 This is a tape recording with three ACTT members who have spent all or most of their working life in film laboratories. We have Bert Craik, Sam Williams, and Alf Cooper. And we're going to discuss the many, many changes that have taken place both in technical condit[…]
[…], really. It was a grammar school education. Unfortunately, I dipped out of the educational system at the age of 15 with the opportunity of joining a film laboratory. I was interested in photography. I was interested in photography at school and the film laboratory seemed to be a very good way in wh[…]
[…]I did, and my anticipating cover, as a maintenance engineer member for a number of years, I was employed here, and also our maintenance engineers and film studios, and in the film business generally, are, as it were working as individuals. And it was not for many, many, many years later that I was i[…]
[…]There is some license for exaggeration. DS 2021. The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project.John Halas, animator and film producer, interviewer is Bob Godfrey, the interview was recorded on the 18th July 1990 Side one Bob Godfrey: you once told me you were […]
[…]ous. The University's audio visual unit was very supportive of Unit Sixty Five and let us use their studio at lunchtimes and also let us borrow their film camera from time to time. Jim Harold, who was the head of the audio visual unit let us borrow an Arri ST and my friend and I at university […]
[…]unning the operational side of Movietone until the War. He was a first class aerialphotographer, having been in the RAF as a Pilot. He specialised in film work from the air and heassigned himself to the flying jobs.Q Can you tell me his name?A Jack. When the war came he became a correspondent - war […]
[…]t school. It was then a very, very, mixed school, socially very, very, mixed; went to read history as an undergraduate at Cambridge, and then studied film, as a postgraduate at Bristol, and was very keen to try and find a way to bring these two great interest of mine, film and history together, and […]
