Search Results for: Honorary Member of the Guild of British Camera Technicians

[…] Did you actually... Manny Yospa: Well I joined as a member. Charles Drazin: Oh I see, you became a member, […]

[…] to the Hammer Film Society of which I am an honorary member, having worked for so long with Hammer films, […]

[…]you got into the industry.Norman Spencer  0:42  Well, I was born in 1914. And I was born in Stockwell, which is near Brixton, but I don't remember any of it because I think when I was about six months, my parents I was the first child, my parents moved to a place called gooseberry green, w[…]

[…]nd I joined the ACT! [Laughing]Charles Drazin: And so what did you do for the ACT, as a cameraman? Did you actually...Manny Yospa: Well I joined as a member.Charles Drazin: Oh I see, you became a member, right.Manny Yospa: So that must be fifty years - sixty - oh all those years ago - something like[…]

[…]nd, um, was generally hawked around the Newsreel business as second man.Alan Lawson: Who was, if you like, your first mentor as a cameraman? Do you remember?David Prosser: Not offhand, because I went out with the whole lot, and I've got the list here of the crews. Normally I went out with what was t[…]

[…] 1934 I got a job where I was paid. It was 10 years a week, that's 50 pence today. That's so much, but it was quite a lot in those days. You got to remember, you could buy a lot of things very cheaply. In those days, you could buy, you know, I think a bottle of whiskey was about three and six pence.[…]

[…]n those sorts of things gave it to me only last week as a matter of fact. A fellow who I know, he belongs to the Hammer Film Society of which I am an honorary member, having worked for so long with Hammer films, and he lives at Stanmore. And I went up to see him, he came and collected me. Do you kno[…]

[…]'s job where you had to have a think about exactly how you were going to cable things or where that mic clipped on. It was doing things as the junior member of a team that the other members of the team then relied on you to do, mostly so they could go to the pub and come in five minutes before on ai[…]

[…]ed to have to go to Hereford for my dancing lessons, although somebody came once a week to give a class somewhere in the church hall, which I can't remember too much about that. I can remember going to Hereford, and I went twice a week, and I used to have to take the bus and it left at 4.10, and to […]

[…] and mother were both interested in amateur theatricals and were members of the local Ross Operatic and Dramatic Society, and […]