[…]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[…]
[…]bsp;a job at Universal News. Which again I didn't know was one of the five newsreels in Britain. I met a very nice man. Although I had no experience whatso[…]
[…]for it but as far as the other one was concerned we got nothing because they had said this is not entertainment this is political satire by enclosing newsreel shots of Krushov we disqualify it and nobody on the eastern block would vote for it at all. Not a question of we didn't win, they wouldn't vo[…]
Norman Fisher ( newsreel cameraman) 18/7/1917 - 20/11/2001 by admin — last modified Jul 27, 2008 02:12 PM Biographical information […]
[…]ting a glow tube in the back of the camera and this of course was the De Forest patent, the AEO-light, which Movietone had acquired and it made sound newsreels possible. And when other newsreels started up such as Gaumont, Paramount, Pathe, they had much more clumsy equipment. Pathe had Visatone rec[…]
[…]opportunities. Yes. And learning to handle film and. And we also I seem to remember we used to go into the small theatre every week to see the latest newsreels. Catch up on all the latest stuff.SPEAKER: M9Well I mean the German newsreel had the German newsreels which came to the Lisbon embassy which[…]
[…]lly I've ever come across. And his son, Jim RunkleUnknown Speaker 8:30 wasUnknown Speaker 8:32 a very early member of ACTT, a newsreel member, very early 3435Unknown Speaker 8:39 he me.Unknown Speaker 8:44 And of course, he used to work in the workshop[…]
Reg Sutton ( newsreel sound recordist, sound supervisor) 24/9/16 - ? by admin — last modified Aug 27, 2008 03:39 […]
[…] used to give anyone who wanted a feed, a feed on these occasions. So I gave him one. And we had a drink afterwards and he says are you interested in newsreels. I said not really, I've been with the BBC some time now and I'm on the established staff, on the regional pension scheme. Only we're lookin[…]
[…] to film stories in Britain for an East German (GDR) newsreel company, and later he became involved in selling film-stock […]
