Michael Colomb

[…]hat its present form. In the BBC, I mean, it was all expansion and getting bigger wasn't and nobody saw anything going in reverse. And I remember the projectionist there, I'm sure that he felt that he had a job for life. It was rather sad. And we thought in all sorts of ways how we could employ him.[…]

Christine Collins

[…]ething about that enterprising extension?No, I mean we have a... we can do it but it’s no special facility, it’s merely a broadcast camera and a back projection screen and a projector really, that’s... And it goes straightthrough the video desk and because it’s viewed by the camera through a ba[…]

Rodney Giesler

[…]interface as well.John Legard: Did you have a sound crew?Rodney Giesler: Not to begin with. We had a Goan called Virgilio de Souza, and he doubled as projectionist and sound recordist. We had a clockwork Newman for filming in dangerous areas, gas areas, and we had a 35 blimped Arriflex with Leevers […]

Francis Searle

BEHP transcript DisclaimerThis transcript has been produced automatically using Otter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for[…]

Peter Tanner

[…]o keep him sober. And he walked away. That was my first job in the film industry. I thought how the hell am I going to do this. So I rushed up to the projection box and luckily one of the projectionists was still there and I bought with my last shilling all the rest of his pot of Camp coffee, do you[…]

BEHP Bulletin no 5 Feb 2021

1 The British Entertainment History Project Bulletin number 5 www.historyproject.org.uk February 2021 Dear all, Much had been achieved during the […]

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[…] yes. We'd never used stills you see; we'd used back projection from the fairly early thirties. Rodney Giesler : And […]

BEHP-interview-procedure-BEHP4

1 Procedure for Interviews Preparing for the Interview • All interview proposals must be submitted to the Main Meeting and […]

Anne Fleming

[…]creenings and we had effectively a monthly programme and we ran that program daily and over each weekend as well. It was non-stop. We had -we had two projectionists which meant that they could alternate weekends and have days off. We also had a small preview theatre which enabled us to screen films […]
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