[…]ollect that my ticket was number five, I seem to think so, may have been seven but I seem to think so. The first four were Thorrold, Sidney Cole, two newsreel cameramen Redknapp and Campbell. Alan Lawson 12:02 Marty Redknapp.Dallas Bower 12:03 Marty R[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]News, they asked me to contact BBC news to work out and to get a liaison agreement between Spot and the BBC. This was in '52. And the BBC then, their newsreel was a magazine programme that they used to produce up at Alexandra Palace and it was the first television newsreel. It was a twice a week thi[…]
[…]tty several 100 and several 100, I guess.Roy Fowler 40:35 So the program probably consisted of what, a first feature, a second feature, a newsreel, coming attractions and a short subject, that's right, and maybe even a cartoon, yes, and an orbit interview, that's right, and maybe a merry[…]
[…] 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 […]
[…]ls mariners had or hobbies, and it was very popular. It showed in 300 cinemas, perhaps because it was free to the cinemas. It was a 10 minute kind of newsreel magazine.Speaker 1 20:59 Did the coward not have its own Film Unit?Speaker 2 21:03 Not in those days now, only when d[…]
[…] a double-feature programme, which they'd been running, and an up-to-date newsreel. And we unloaded all these ancient old films. And […]
[…]s]. So he said, "That's a good idea. I'll go along with that." So he gave us a double-feature programme, which they'd been running, and an up-to-date newsreel. And we unloaded all these ancient old films. And he was so happy because he could open the theatre you see. And so could we. So we did this.[…]
[…]nbsp;that was 1928 when talkies started and uh he he wanted to go into the newsreel business which was just being formed and uh I think British movie tone […]
[…] incredible! Alan Lawson: It was used by one of the newsreel actually. Cyril Pennington-Richards: That's right, that's right, big... Alan […]
