[…]tographed the the beginning of the sinking. he photographed it from the lifeboat and then photographed it from the ship that saved them, took it into Movietone and sold it to him for I think 100 pounds, which they bought immediately. They didn't know what to do with it. So send it out to us to see i[…]
[…]or Speed, that's right. I also used him on the following film, The Ghost Camera. I had seen some unusual cutting on a newsreel, was it either British Movietone or um...Sidney Cole: Yes - no, he was Gaumont British.Bernard Vorhaus: Gaumont British that's right. And er - I wanted to find out who was d[…]
[…]on television at that time, because all there was a weekly newsreel which was compiled largely from the commercial news in the cinema.Norman Swallow: Movietone etcDavid Attenborough: It was regarded that if you put pictures to what Alvar Liddell or anyone else like that said on the radio you were im[…]
[…]p;in later on. We didn't get Castleton Knight until we did the Olympic games.That's right.AL: It was Fox Movietone, Ian Craig.FL: That's right Sir Ian Craig and every single frame of that negative I ranthrough my fingers. Because […]
[…]Cinematographic Engineers. 1944 severely wounded at Anzio. 15 mths in Queen Marys, Roehampton. Lieutenant by then. Maintenance of cameras – from Movietone and GB newsreels dried up. Work for BBC newsreel – fixed Mitchell cameras. Studios bought new equipment so Uncle went into manufacture. A li[…]
[…]d around Wardour St, mostly in pubs and The Sudbury Dairy was one place they used to meet which had a sort of a cafe. There were one or two people on Movietone news who were quite keen on it. I think because it was one of the Gibbles, Jock, was quite a keen ACT bloke. But I don't remember then much […]
