[…]d of 1940, we got moved out somewhere round October.Roy Fowler: You were part of the BBC rep?Robert Beatty: No, I was reading news. I was doing Radio Newsreel. I was in it for about a year and a half.Roy Fowler: This was auntie unbending from the dinner jacket and black-tie image.Robert Beatty: Very[…]
[…]st: No, no.Roy Fowler: No, I see, right. And what did the programme comprise, what did you get for your money?Eddie Dryhurst: Well we usually got the newsreel, which by then was a couple of issues old. The newsreel, a travel short, a two-reel comedy, the feature of course and maybe a second feature […]
[…] or anything like that. And they would, you had to use a lot of them, so you had multiplicity of shadows. And they gave the light. They were okay for newsreel filming, but whereas you can use quartz lights virtually for feature lighting, color trans were all right, but they were much more difficult […]
[…]emember the proportion of... I suppose most films then were double features weren’t they, or I think had a supporting, they didn’t go out with just a newsreel.No, it was quite a package. It was the ‘A’ picture, the ‘B’ picture, the newsreel and a short subject, usually. And forthcoming attractions. […]
[…]e of those would work on it, it was almost all schoolmasters who 'd bought up 16mm some time ago, it was an absolute cheap jack shambles. The various newsreels who were going to be involved with it refused to have anything to do with it, the only people who were willing were Japanese newsreels and t[…]
[…] out of that rut but they gradually lost it all and you don’t see any of it now in these days. But they had at Denham the early mixers had been newsreel men who did the camera and the sound all on the one remember that? Cotton, I think, a chap named Cotton...ROY FOWLER: Cotter?HARRY MILLER: Co[…]
[…]esigned for big locations in America. One was only a bank of batteries and a petrol generator (a standard) and two recorders side by side so that for newsreel you could start one up and overlap, but I never really understood what went on inside those little boxes; I felt quite frightened when I went[…]
