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BILLY WILLIAMS Lighting cameraman Interviewer John Taylor, with Alan Lawson, recorded on 20 November 1991 Copyright BECTU History Project John […]

Interview

[…] from a concrete corridor, open a door and go straight into a pine forest. And when they were shooting on it, it was absolutely marvellous I mean the lighting effects you can get with trees but it was absolutely sick with trees. That's another one of my recollections of night without armour. Now the[…]

Graham Hartstone

[…]mily, largely were amateur theatricals. My uncle and aunt ran a musical society North London Musical Society. And I used to get involved, there doing lighting, to begin with just doing a spotlights follow for follow spots from the back of the hall. And later on lighting. And in our little in our whe[…]

Margaret Dale

[…]n was £900, which was quite impossible. The working conditions in the studio were also impossible really for new work. We had no previous setting and lighting, so that on one day, which began at 8:30 there were two hours  for setting and lighting and I think that meant getting rid of the set th[…]

2eric-cross-history-project

1 E ric Cross ( Lighting Camer aman – DOP) Career in film industry: 1926 to (circa) 1962 Credits include: […]

Ronald Grant

[…]he money anyway. But even if I just wanted to go and see if I could either borrow money or get a fuel the lovely glass, they had swan neck, secondary lighting was gas, they didn't have batteries. It was gas lighting. In case the mains failed, and I used to go with a taper and light them every day. I[…]

Philip Bonham-Carter

[…]rk. Just really exciting. Again it’s the buzz of something real. It was extraordinary. DB: And he didn’t have to wait while you spent four hours lighting it? PB-C: He didn’t. [laughter] He had this bright idea that we shoot at night, with – what do you call those things – night-sights.&nbs[…]
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