Sydney Samuelson

[…] you put the money in I’ll open a camera department...er....and I know, s, I know how to do it. So they became er they were always by far the biggest lighting rental company. But they were, they then had a major camera department, which was major competition to us and .... there were a number of oth[…]

Manny Yospa

[…] those days only the, sort of, producer, director and the lighting cameraman had a credit, none of us had any […]

Mat Irvine

[…] it flipped up and it sent the water up hitting it because when it fell, it then fell parallel. So it looks like real rain. Below stands there on big lighting stands that you want them up there up in the up in the air for quite a few metres quite a few feet. Next, and usually we'll we'll lamps as we[…]

Derek Threadgall

[…] director general manager. He wasn't he was the managing director. He was managing director Bill rule was the studio manager. And of course it was in lighting this was 1960 beginning of 1960. Is this pre or post Bentley. This is pre bent treatment events. Right. So I went down. Bill role was a chara[…]

Emmanuel (Manny) Yospa

[…]e as extraordinarily unfair is the credit system.Manny Yospa: Oh that, in those days too. In those days only the, sort of, producer, director and the lighting cameraman had a credit, none of us had any credit - I mean screen credits. We had credit lists where we...Charles Drazin: And was that someth[…]

Anne V Coates

[…]rt director and a cameraman, as I said, who didn’t get on, so that that the, the great Gothic sets that the art director was doing, the cameraman was lighting them black, [laughs] so that you couldn’t see them. [phone ringing] Excuse me. [break in recording] [0:25:00] Let me ask that question.[…]

Alan Lawson

[…] by that time I'd been upgraded, I was no longer the number boy, 1 was the first assistant, I think I was working to Sid Bonnet, Percy Strong was the lighting cameraman.Arthur Graham: You say you were a number boy when you started, what exactly did you have to do?Alan Lawson: Putting up the number f[…]

Vernon Sewell

[…] Krampf and, indeed, he was one of the very greatest lighting cameramen. Vernon Sewell: Yeah. He moved to me and […]
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