[…]ate a black and white picture where they weren't quite sure it was balanced right. They weren't quite sure, because they were used to having the film laboratory grading system, you could shift so much later that you couldn't with video cameras so video cameras put an awful lot of demands on people w[…]
[…]d Paul Rotha, he, believe it or not, told me to go and learn how to pack films. So I said "Pack films?" So he said "yes, go into a library, or into a laboratory and learn how to handle film. And then you can think about going, becoming a film technician" which is the most ridiculous advice I think t[…]
[…]hadto be rushed back because it had to be processed. We had a processing plant in our building,our own processing plant. We started off by using Kays Laboratory but after a while we formedour own laboratory and when we moved into Television House in Wirrall Street, in about 1960,our own lab was in t[…]
[…]ng.Yes.He went in the Army.Yes.[Pause] So, mm...So, so you had a position there where you were management, the Personnel Manager?Mm.Mm, the, the, the Laboratory was doing well?Yes.Mm, Marshall Cushman was the manager?Yes.HARRY COURCHA 35When did that all break down and why did it break down?He’d bec[…]
[…] processing of all the material. We had our own lab shell it set up a laboratory yes carry Bay which was run by a Yugoslav called Oslo. Vicky and an&n[…]
[…]ys - something couldn't be done at The BBC now - to wave a magic wand and say that we'll give you film stock, or The BBC will give you film stock and laboratory processing, and a cutting room or hire a cutting room, and an assistant, in return for transmission of the film that you make, if it's any […]
[…] work did you do after that? Did you continue in newsreels, or do other things?Alf Tunwell: Well I... I applied for a job with Pathe Freres, in their laboratory. And I've got rather an interesting letter with me here, it's only a couple of lines, I'll just read it to you. It's dated 10th May 1913. "[…]
[…]ibly influenced also by Robert Preska his camera man my conclusion as i said was that he's one of those directors who are very dependent on their key techniciansInterviewer 4:14 i should have asked you about Preska of course just hopping back to Another Man's PoisonGordon Hales 4:2[…]
