[…]ad him thrown out, you see. We said it was our exclusive so he didn't win.Roy Fowler: Right.Reg Sutton: You see, they used to get up to all sorts of pranks and some of the old cameramen will tell you this, there's not many about now to tell you but I know the stories where they'd cover cricket at th[…]
[…]s, to a degree and not only that, it it. It limited even coverage. So that the images have been used to do parts of pictures, it would have saved the Rank Organisation a lot of money on various productions instead of trying to bolt stories to the system. Anyway, it didn't last that long. Anyway,Alan[…]
[…] 1975); Visit by Members of the Rank Organisation Board to Rank Film Laboratories (British Movietone 1978); Film and Television Technician, 1950-90; BECTU […]
[…], developing in hand rock cans and pretty rough it was. And in my spare time old Barker used to train us boys, and we were really only boys, to hand crank cameras. Ready for any great news event which would come along. And we used to spend our lunch times just going up onto the top floor with an old[…]
[…]me through as I was going home to dinner, [Laughter] going home for the Sunday and that was the end of that weekend. [Laughter]Yes.Oh yes.I remember Frank Coombes telling me he’d burnt the Derby negative?Oh yes, that’s right. He caught that alight in a projector. [Laughter]Yes, yes, yes.I forgot abo[…]
