[…]ed way back in 19, I suppose 1908. And my father was at a very, very young age at the age of about 23. He was already a very known, well known London photographer. Ronald Neame 1:02 He had studios in Bonn Street. And in South Kensington, he had quite a good commercial busi[…]
[…]ornel Arthur (laughs)NA: We’ve met before. I’m the curator of the stills library at the British Film Institute. Cornel you’re a world renowned stills photographer, so obviously there’s an affinity between us. I wondered if we could go right back to the beginning and tell us how you started off your […]
[…]1942 really? I had to interrupt at the outbreak of the war. I had to interrupt filming. I found myself a job with a medical firm, Boros, welcome as a photographer, doing scientific photographs, and also some advertising photographs for them, which kept main a reserved occupation, which otherwise I w[…]
[…]ne day very seriously if front of everybody on the set. Elliot you made a pass at a girl on the set isn't really the thing to do. Life magazine photographer making a pass at a girl on Moulin Rouge Elliot I don't know what came over you but you know I took you seriously John. I didn't hear it. […]
[…]gain. They want a realistic approach with artistic style and the black and white, you see style, which inner lighting technique, which give to German photographer something special. They had the art of mixing arcs and incandescent lighting that gave you visually as well. The chariot had a sort of bl[…]
[…]f, like development issues, printing out frames, and cameras. And cars are great. And he just passed them on to me as also I had a lot of old amateur photographers, which he passed on to me. And that was really the start of your interesting that was yes, I really got interested. I mean, to the degre[…]
[…]e rest of it, I wouldn't have been in it either. So he was dead, and I had to earn a living. So it's case of crime or photography, because I became a photographer. Do youRoy Fowler 0:55 remember what your early leanings were as a school? Oh, boy, as young,Keith Ewart 1:02 I r[…]
[…] by 1ots of people like that. He was very 1oyal to the people he liked but he could be terribly unkind. He was a great visual director, he had been a photographer and a good one in his own right. That's fairly right. There are a lot of directors who are very good but are not visual at all. Micky was[…]
[…]whole I had a good time there because I met some interesting people who probably some of the modules and probably disappear during the war. One was a photographer, which is my only experience I think of being a model because he did some fashion work. And I modelled a couple of sweaters for him. And […]
[…] the poor whites, being the local settlers, who the Americans could not afford to send certain grades like third assistants and Chapel boys and still photographers. And I ended up as still photographer for MGM, which was very fine, and Kane gave me a chance to work with or work around Bob Surtees, w[…]