[…]back to London, because of Betty, and because I wanted to be in London. A job came up at Pathé News, and I went to Pathé in Wardour Street as a Newsreel Commentary Writer. I wasn’t the only one. But I learned more at Pathé, I suppose, than I did at any other place, other than in te[…]
[…]school I came in contact with a man called Frank basil. Now that was the Frank Brown, the Frank bevel on the lawn remember, I think of ICT he was the newsreel cameraman, and this was his son. And at Frank Basil's PLOS, we had old padley wooden pathi cameras, and a mass of memorabilia from the war. A[…]
[…] of a pony and trap. Then was a lot of newsreel stuff with live sound and up to that time […]
[…].DS: European Service. And people rang up and said I need a quarter of an hour recording time to do something, or there were block bookings for radio newsreel and whatever, and you had to fill in all these charts and then people would ring up and say can you fit me in a quarter of an hour. And it be[…]
[…] the sound unit right the way up.Roy Fowler 34:35 It's a single system, single Ah, right. I understand now I get Yes, and it was used for newsreel. Was that the purpose not for studio I see, right? Okay, difficult to edit. Yeah, did you ever see it in operation? No, no, you've no idea wh[…]
[…] and Johan Oomen, BUFVC Section 1: Childhood years and first newsreel jobs [21:35 mins] Growing up: first job at newspaper; […]
[…]o. In no way. We had no radios in no way where we allowed to know what was happening in the world.SPEAKER: M1So you didn't see any of the traditional newsreels.SPEAKER: M11No we didn't see the British news. We would have either a Popeye's short or a Mickey Mouse short or the seekers of life nature. […]
[…]Alan LawsonInterviewee: David ProsserTape 1, Side 1Alan Lawson: The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. David Prosser, Newsreel cameraman, later BBC film cameraman. Recorded on the 23rd of the fifth, 1989 at his home in Chandler's Ford, Interviewer Alan Lawson. Side on[…]
[…]ted to make Lady Jane look as if it was a contemporary film if they’d had film at that time.
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He wanted it to be a very grainy, realistic, newsreel type of film. And he was never really allowed to. I mean he had Dougie Slocombe as his cameraman, and Dougie is a beautiful cameraman but he […]
[…]s and and the V twos had stopped, the the the pictures. Then I remember going to see a Danny Kaye film. And that was Love, fun entertainment, but the newsreels started then showing the the, my mother kept me sating down. She didn't think there was going to be any problem. The Show, the pictures goin[…]
