Douglas Slocombe

[…]is Open, open cockpits at the back the observers. And I always find that very intriguing to be so sort of you're standing out in the open act with my camera. And that gave me a wonderful love of love of flying, and I very much envied the pilots who flew those things. And it. It was my ambition to fl[…]

Taylor Downing

[…]Vicky had Flashback Productions Ltd. And she went on making very successful series, a very long running series about the history of The March of Time newsreel. I believe that was actually sixty programmes. MW: Wow. TD: If I’ve got in right., fifty or sixty programmes that she made and that[…]

Godfrey Jennison

[…]l. This is a great thing. You get a feel for it much more than just. Being behind a piece of paper. Yes it is and. So. Yes we used to have the German newsreels every week and only a few days later from Berlin. And it was always said and this is not a truth. This is only as far as the word must be ap[…]

Simon Rose

[…]oviet bloc. And it was about the Soviet repression of that uprising. It was a very moving and very realistic portrayal. It looked like it looked like newsreel. lert in fact, each shot in the streets of Canterbury with a bunch of amateurs. And I thought it was amazing. And actually Peter Watkins beca[…]

Fred Tomlin

[…]t sense, thick deep carpets, lovely seats to sit in, and for a sixpence in the afternoon, that's what we used to pay, there were two feature films, a newsreel and an hour's stage show.Bob Allen: They had a big organ in there too.Fred Tomlin: That's right. A big stage show, and I saw people like Soph[…]

Norman Swallow

[…]the quality, because you can now, with modern tape editing facilities. From our original 35 we could do all sorts of things and the old original newsreel looked much better once we'd played around with it. So that was an improvement. Otherwise I did one 40 Minutes for my old friend Eddie Mirzeo[…]

Fred Tomlin

[…] we used to pay, there were two feature films, a newsreel and an hour's stage show. Bob Allen: They had […]

Clyde Jeavons

[…]tary Movement, but those were films that were shown in the cinema, you were exposed to them that way. But I had no deeper knowledge than that, beyond newsreels, and documentaries. It was the discovery of unseen film really, which excited me, and it went hand in hand with Lindgren’s philosophy, where[…]

Peter Dimmock

[…]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.&[…]
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