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Alf Cooper
[…]ld think first?Yes, and it was the Jubilee celebrations that we did on Dufay colour.Yes. What newsreel was that then you were doing at Kay’s then?Mm, Movietone I think. We used to do Movietone news there all the time.Yes.That’s why we could never go home.Yes.Because the programmes broke on a Sunday.[…]
Sydney Samuelson
[…]I thought I’d got a pretty good job and I wasn’t going to risk er moving and not getting another one. My brother David was a projectionist at British Movietone and he said “I don’t think that you should be working in cinemas all your life what are you going to do?” and “You ought to try and get into[…]
Ted Candy
[…];I thank God I didn't. Ronnie Reed went. Ronnie Reed was over there and a few others. They went to the Belsen and to the other camps. But you see, we Movietone had an office in Germany throughout the war, and they had pictures of Germans. They ran the neutral under Go Bulls. Of course, when the war […]
“Pinching pictures”: Alf Tunwell and the art of the newsreel
[…] Samuelson through the ‘20s, but in 1929 he joined British Movietone News which was setting up the country’s first sound […]
Leonard (Len) Harris
[…]ost a little job years later because of that. Well some big - I was freelancing and some big news event, I can't think what it was, was coming up and Movietone News were going to cover it in a big way. So I went to Movietone News and I said "If you want any extra cameras...?" And they said, "Oh yes,[…]
