[…]rd. So I think not.Stephen Peet 15:52 Now, at some point, just before Federation I think it was but I'm not quite sure the date a regular newsreel was started. That was called Rhodesian spotlight. How was this organised? I remember myself when I moved to Nyasaland in 53 being reque[…]
[…]als? 00:16:31ADOLPH:Oh, Pathé, well, not the, they only made any, they, what they were doing – well, you may remember it – they were running a newsreel, you see. [coughs] And they were doing some, occasionally they were doing, they had, they tried making a few film, but not a lot. Q:So[…]
[…]ired from the RAF in 1924, which was quite early - and he joinedCookwit(?) Budget as a camera man which was one of the original, very original, cinemanewsreels. Topical budget. I mean it was one of the first ones. He then transferred, to myknowledge, in about 1927-28 to Pathé and was a camera man fo[…]
[…]at and he gave me one of his old cameras, a 16mm Bell and Howell and that's how I started to be interested in cinematography. I made a sort of school newsreel. I talked the headmaster into paying for the film and we made a school newsreel which we showed on speech day a couple of times. It sort of w[…]
[…]res in the newspapers, so there was going to be a restriction on it. So I thought, well, the one thing that was top of the pole in those days was the newsreels. They were in everything, did everything. So I wrote to there were five New Zealand companies in those days that was paramount, universal pa[…]
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[…]od coverage of the paratroops getting ready to go, the paratroops and airborne troops. I thought I did good cover in that, and it was because all the newsreels used it, and we were able to see - we were stationed then down at - that was at a place near Cambridge where they went, and I filmed that. A[…]
