[…]ut and it’s gone and it’s done, move onto the next and this kind of thing. Obviously you didn’t want a major breakdown on air but it was perhaps less polished but more immediate in this way, but it was the way it was done and so everybody, the other broadcasters all did the same so it was just part […]
[…] was nauseated by the lack of care the… the scruffiness of everything. Shoot, shoot, shoot, and it didn’t matter if it worked there was absolutely no polish just turning over film. And I thought “I don’t want to work on this sort of stuff”. It’s not the sort of stuff I wanna watch, I wouldn’t… I wou[…]
[…]ain very good training because you’re working against time and you learn to make very quick decisions and they’re quite complicated,some of them. Not polished, but complicated. And then I went and took over editing and,you know, you’re edit... and the cutting rooms, he had a range of cutting rooms a[…]
[…]very clever. The water is fair you say the mould Richardson's they use ordinary plain carbon. They don't use copper coated carbons we used to have to polish these carbons. Horrible mucky job to get them to feed smoothly through the solid silver jaws. Now these solid silver jaws with that grip the ca[…]
[…]y soon ditched theirs which was very, very sensible because this thing was extremely temperamental. So at that time Gateway had this engineer. He was Polish and quite a character. But he would do all the sort of mechanical things of recording, you know, if you wanted fifty footof birdsong, Gateway h[…]
[…]ng I had to do when I got there, the old Debrie dolly, the crab that used to have three arms, and you steered it with a thing like that, and I had to polish that with Cherry Blossom boot polish. The dolly that was, that crab. I used to have to polish that, and I used to have to do the cameraman's sh[…]
[…] got two or three rooms and I used to go from one room to the other, rehearsing the various people. And then I would go on the air, do a run-through, polish up my camera work after Music Shop was over at three o'clock, start about half past three, polish off anything I had left undone on Friday on t[…]
[…]ly the glass must have been of high optical quality? The camera was shooting through glass.L.P. Williams : Yes, oh presumably, yes. Yes. Yes, mustn't polish it with a silk handkerchief in case you scratched it you see. Yes.Rodney Giesler : And presumably the microphone had to be on a fairly large bo[…]
[…]ence had you had with the Newman Sinclair, operating it?Norman Fisher: Just fiddling around with it, there were plenty around and I used to clean and polish them and run them through and this sort of stuff,. So I hadn't any trouble in using a camera at all. Ultimately, of course I went over to sound[…]
