[…]er: Gaumont News, yes. And there I was, the chief 'humper' in those days, humping gear for various cameramen. The first job I went out was with Jimmy Humphries who was a very pleasant man but we went to the zoo to film an okapi which had just come over here, it was some weird animal, a bit like a ze[…]
[…]every couple of months. And although they were union meetings, they were quite interesting because you could talk to the other ... I mean people from Humphries and Kays and Technicolor were there as well. And you got to know quite a lot about the other laboratories as well. And there was a tec[…]
[…]levision film and so you can't win.SPEAKER: M2It's rather like when I said I'd worked with John Grierson and Chet replied I didn't he used to work at Humphries which I thought was rather good remark.SPEAKER: M4Well I had a conversation with a guy who was running British Film Academy back in the 70s […]
[…] guy whose name I can't remember, but he was in the Royal Engineers doing this mine spotting thing, and we got chatting and I found out he worked for Humphries Labs and he was also an ACT member. And when I wrote and told George this, George wrote to him as well. So I have great respect for George. […]
[…]g of a very exceptional person who was also a painter in Humphrey Jennings.WhoJereman Dozo is an old mate of mine, I interviewed him and he was Humphries assistant on Listen to Britain. He is and he's in. He talked a lot about Humhrey Jennings . And one of the things he said was, Humphrey Jenn[…]
Alan Lawson 0:08 The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project. Ann Turner arts features television producer, interviewer, Norman Swallow, recorded on the 22nd of March 1995. side oneshouting No, no first where when were you born?Ann Turner 0:42 I was[…]
[…]ing very closely there. They worked out the shape of the film. It was not the was not haphazardly shaped. It probably never had a script. I mean, hum Humphries scripted a national get the, the film's Humphrey started making in the National Gallery was about Trafalgar Square and the National Gallery.[…]
