[…]t matter what yours was that you had to go out with a wife because you've got a lot of it. And we went out with that John Wayne film which he won the Oscar for winning. But he had the black patch over his eye one eye. No not one eye Jack a cameraman what it was. Yeah. And it was. Anyhow it is a big […]
[…]pear there but because there was a connection with, was he nephew, I think, of a previous headmaster or something like that... there was a man called Oscar Lean, perhaps it was his son. One of the first people I was introduced to - this is very strange you've cued me into this - was having lunch wit[…]
[…]any good, lovely colleagues whom I did not want to see dismissed with the bulk of the others, such as Harold Whitaker, Jack King and many others like Oscar Grillo by the way that a I decided to have another go in 1974. Joy Batchelor very much advised me not to start another adventure. I had taken a […]
  Kenneth Griffith Side 1Colin Moffat  0:00  The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Kenneth Griffith, actor in feature films, producer and performer in television documentary programmes.  Interviewer Colin Moffat 23rd of April 1[…]
[…] of the film for programme to work down to any time.Speaker 1  33:53  Well Opus, I remember very well, which was, I think, nominated for an Oscar and to do what got on. But it was an interesting film, in that it was the first time that the COI had ever attempted to make anything that was a[…]
[…]I was working on the Schools, basically. Which was 35mm and black and white, in which - I mean, apart from anything else, Chris Menges, who’s now our Oscar-winning cameraman, was a clapper loader, focus-puller. I made that film and then we, well we cut it at the BBC and dubbed it in spare time at th[…]
[…]Yeah. But there was also a lucky man wasn't there was a neck command and remember, he was a real wicked man. I mean, he was a Scotsman as using their Oscars. Now that was an interesting and I i did i was a shop steward at the time for quite a while, and I've been shop steward on locations occasional[…]
[…]f Africa because we all know that it culminated in receiving what is considered the highest award in the Motion Picture business, that is the Academy Oscar. Can you tell us a little bit about working on the picture and your enjoyment and problems and so on.PH It goes back beyond Out of Africa. It re[…]
[…]  13:28  I did a few shots in a picture. I describe him as a good camera man. He lit a picture in Hollywood before he came here that won an Oscar, I think for photography, he was somewhere on the nervy, really type as I remember him. You know, after he licked something, he wasn't sure if h[…]
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