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[…] so, or roughly. This largely had to be done with newsreel material gathered from all sources, incidentally I used to […]

Roger Bernard Newbold Smither

[…]ian Victory detour were the IWM collections of Second World War Ministry of Information films and after that I catalogued a series of German language newsreels called Welt Im film which were put out by the British and American occupation authorities in occupied Germany after The Second World War. Qu[…]

Charles Potter

[…]ent from one side of the states, right across with a bell on front, driver, Gilbert and a cow catcher. And every town it pulled up the local news. We newsreel. Covered it. There was civic receptions every stop. It was all film on 35 mil silent, infallible stock. When the train came back, they brough[…]

Larry Allen

[…]elebrations. And, course it was a business, I mean you've got to earn money somewhere of some sort and er...Rodney Giesler: So where did you sell the newsreels, the films you took?Larry Allen: I wasn't doing films then.Rodney Giesler: Oh you were just doing still photographs?Larry Allen: I was doing[…]

John Schlesinger

[…]pan, no China, the Japanese invaded. I remember my first impression of death was very strong. It was the assassination of the King of Yugoslavia on a newsreel and the kind of rictus of a smile that he had when he was shot in his carriage. And I remember a trip to the mint and seeing a man with his h[…]

Bernard Vorhaus – HP0219

[…] Ghost Camera. I had seen some unusual cutting on a newsreel, was it either British Movietone or um... Si dney […]

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[…] trouble - what was he? I think he was a newsreel cameraman, or had been. Can't remember his name - […]

Gerry Weinbren

[…]m. What I had realized was how valuable historical footage was.SPEAKER: M12And I also realized that the only color footage at the time apart from the newsreels. I mean the cinema newsreels because I set the company up in the 60s and going back through the 50s. The only good color footage on 35 was a[…]
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