Alan Lawson 0:00 The copyright of this recording is vested in the actt history project.Charlotte Jennings, artist, daughter of Humphrey Jennings, the documentary film director, poet, and artist,recorded on the 17th of December 1990. side one interview, Alan Lawson Well was was not, you k[…]
[…];of the other technicians of course Jack Cardiff and Jeff Unsworth were the two lighting cameramen. And Harold Hazen was the technician that I worked mostly with. An[…]
[…] was camera man and assistant , sound recordist and assistant, lighting, grip – ‘I want a pan right across their […]
[…] a wonderful three and a half years.!I: A wonderful series.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!15!Sydney!Newman!(1917G1997)!was!a!Canadian!film!and!television!producer,!and!Head!of!Drama!at!the!BBC.!He!initiated!the!creation!of!Doctor$Who!in!1963.!!16!Sean!Kenny!(1929G1973)!was!an!Irish!set,!costume!and! lighting!designer.!He!is!most!notable!for!his!work!with!Lionel!Bart!on!musicals!including!Oliver!!(1960).! ED: I tried to make it look as much […]
[…]you. But interestingly enough, I’d applied for it that ticket, ACCT that’s right, as it was in those days. And I got all of the smart people like the lighting cameraman to sign my form and I got rejected immediately of course. The second time I got all the lower people… who was the one union bloke t[…]
[…]also have training programmes, I presume? R: No. I: No?! R: No. No, STV, I went, I might have done a Health and Safety Course. I did a Lighting Course and I did a Time-Code Course and that was in the twenty-seven years! I did three courses for STV! I: So basically you learned on […]
[…] like old masters because Ducky Slocombe used to go and study paintings at the National Gallery before he'd start to shoot things and get ideas about lighting and so forth. Anyway that that all went very successfully and then I guess I was wanting what we were going to be assigned to when Michael ca[…]
[…]o do this, you've got to do that. And none of it worked. My father as I told you, was involved with , the glass works, and they made film lighting equipment, studio lighting. And one day Pa heard a man called Mr. Bill Norris, was getting somewhere in the building or round the […]
[…]ransport film. And David was the camera man. It was his first sort of film I've ever read. I think because of that, and the different styles of lighting, Dick Lester pinched him for the Knack with came very soon afterwards. Sarah wanted her money up front, and she wouldn't take a profit […]
[…]marvellous, he take me on one side so I am what he wants, because it was my first after major arts film and you know, it was quite big deal with huge lighting setups and the business of having to under crank on the tracks with Bill Paget was marvellous timing these things so when it was run, proper […]
