Joan Kemp

[…] facts of life very quickly! I used to work the lighting board, and the lighting board consisted of the old […]

Leonard (Len) Harris

[…]ight, and we really did work day and night, on Sundays and everything you know.Alan Lawson: Who was the cameraman over there?Leonard Harris: Well the lighting cameraman on the first picture I went on - I'm trying to think.Alan Lawson: Was it Basil?Leonard Harris: Hmm?Alan Lawson: Basil Emmott was it[…]

Leonard Harris

[…] Who was the cameraman over there? Leonard Harris: Well the lighting cameraman on the first picture I went on - […]

James Arthur Clark

[…]ell. He was a bit of a rough diamond in those days but we made quite a good team. He had very little help. He was a one man band really was doing the lighting and the operating and everything but he was a very sound technician. He knew exactly what he was doing and if they were very lucky to have hi[…]

Keith Ewart

[…], I'll take this role away. Now, there's the camera and everything. Turn around, do what you like, thinking to yourself as a pity is doing it with my lighting. You know, pity I can't switch all light, because actually, if he wants to do it, he should learn to do the whole thing and then develop and […]

Patrick (Paddy) Carey

[…] actually a camera man. I was paid as an assistant, even though I was permanently employed, more or less. And then when I did some actual shooting or lighting or whatever, then I got paid the minimum rate of the camera man,John Taylor  32:56  the daily rate.Paddy Carey  32:59  No[…]

Freddie Young

[…]ewman-Sinclair cameras; B&D used Mitchell cameras; they made their own blimps for the Mitchell cameras. Side 200:00:00 – 00:07:30 Changes in lighting equipment; early days at Gaumont they worked with daylight, blinds and carbon arc lights; when more lights were available the studio was pain[…]

Jim Gorrie

[…]ack. And within about six weeks was I was in the sound theatre a vacancy in the sound theatre, which will then becomeAlf Cooper  32:36  the lighting department.Jim Gorrie  32:38  No, no, that was the LPA that commander Cahill bless plus k Hill positive assembly, as well. A film w[…]
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