Moira Armstrong

[…]The BBC because I’d actually been around for quite some time. I think occasionally you would find little sort of pockets of resistance. You know, the lighting director whom I eventually got to know quite well who, you know, we had terrible arguments. I won’t say what his name is.Oh go on.It was John[…]

Jonathan Balcon

[…]one rang one Saturday morning and I think it was Hal and there was an entire unit at Ealing waiting to start shooting. The carpenters were there, the lighting men were there, the actors were there but there was no electrician there and nobody would dare touch the main switch. And I remember Mick say[…]

Peggy Gick

[…]l you wanted to have a chat with your director...trouble is with some of them to get them to communicate.John Legard: And did you have your favourite lighting cameraman to do your work justice as it were? I mean, did you have favourite people then?Peggy Gick: Well I only worked on [such] a lot of sm[…]

Aida Young (nee Cohen)

[…]as no them and us and it was just like a family.  I mean it was just terrific and the quality of the films was wonderful.  We used the best designers, the best technicians, it was just wonderful.  I’m… you know if anybody ever sneers at Hammer, and when I think of the rubbish that was[…]

Jack Gold

[…] gone into before by you - but I mean it was near the change when documentaries were structured because they had to be, because of the equipment, and lighting, etc, etc, to the more newsreely, or vérité type of films when you interposed much less between camera and subject. So we shot this thing, an[…]

Norman Fisher

[…]we needed, you know.Roy Fowler: Minimally equipped. Or did you have enough equipment for purposes?Norman Fisher: We had a certain amount of permanent lighting, of course, and we had an electrician as well. So anyway, anything else that was required it was brought in from outside. Of course the budge[…]

Gordon Hales

[…]a go at the battle and i made the mistake of into cutting the charge of the french knights with the preparations for which was vetoed out of hand the lighting camera was outraged intervene with his lovely tracking shot and in fact whereas you may remember the premiere that shot drew applause.Intervi[…]

Peter Tanner

[…]CT, I had one crew had Riverside doing my documentary and another crew at Teddington doing this feature.Roy Fowler: They'll be after you for moonlighting.Peter Tanner: I'm afraid they would. That's the only time I ever did it. I don't approve of moonlighting anyway, in all honesty but it w[…]

Norman Fisher

[…] purposes? Norman Fisher: We had a certain amount of permanent lighting, of course, and we had an electrician as well. […]
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