[…]I went all the way back to Ireland and worked a week's notice. And he said, "What we're going to do, we're just going to have Sunday pictures and the newsreel during the week, with the variety. The job is yours as chief projectionist." So I came back, and that was the year before the war broke out. […]
[…]yes, the sixties, in the sixties. And er...Charles Drazin: But how did you er - I mean you were one man with your camera...Manny Yospa: Oh yes it was newsreel thing, and that's the newsreel crew, just the one man and his camera. Oh I remember once I nearly caused an international incident. Philip No[…]
[…]bands there were everywhere. And it was every projectionist in Birmingham. We were having great chats between ourselves. Oh, I must tell you that the newsreels we used to have and usually this came after the war now. Yes, I'll tell you what happened to the newsreels after the war, where the newsreel[…]
[…]I made did make some instructional films there about tobacco growing, African tobacco growing, a series of six. And I know, yeah, supplying items for newsreel, that...for showing in cinemas mostly to whites, throughout the federation. Because by now it had become a Federal Government Film Unit. A Fe[…]
[…]ce, myself and two of our senior engineers. And I put a 2 inch lens in the camera because there was a rule at that time that we couldn’t have a newsreel camera or a television camera closer than 30 feet to the Queen, it was a sort of archaic rule that still existed and was very much enforced.&[…]
[…]nk it was 16 by 11mm or something like this.That was the Academy frame and of course this was the standard size and you often see it in old-fashioned newsreel. If you look at an old-fashioned newsreel of the First World War, you'll find people's heads are cut off, their feet are cut off and you can'[…]
[…] a double-feature programme, which they'd been running, and an up-to-date newsreel. And we unloaded all these ancient old films. And […]
[…] against the injustice of the Means Test, which includes worker newsreel footage of a hunger march shot by Cooper. Cooper […]
[…]iqueUnknown Speaker 41:30 and need for it was it? Yes,Unknown Speaker 41:32 I think that was because most mostly it was radio newsreel at the time meeting so many arrangements making for them for reporters. Likely programme. Is it still going on? Yes, it'sUnknown Speaker &nbs[…]
