[…] now, had I had a camera or had I been one of these guys that could work out focus, this, that and the other on a camera I probably would have been a photographer maybe, you know, because what always fascinates me visually are things that are almost impossible to put down on paper, you know, you kno[…]
[…]y you see of these slides not buckling under the terrific heat of the projector.Rodney Giesler : But they weren't back projections as such, they were stills rather than film?L.P. Williams : That's it, yes. We'd never used stills you see; we'd used back projection from the fairly early thirties.Rodne[…]
[…]r finally took charge of the unit, he wasn't only making films for the syllabus, but he was responsible for various aspects of visual aids and so on, stills for not only the railways, it was, it was the docks, the road services in waterways. Perhaps you could tell us a bit about what was in mind in […]
[…]nd then I was ill. I had rheumatic fever and one or two other things. And I got, I went to I got a job on the newspaper, and I was going to say I was photographer, though I was going to eventually be a photographer, I worked in the dark rooms, and I learned a lot about photography. It intrigued me, […]
[…]?Well my first job was in a commercial studio... Oh no, that’s interesting, I’ve justremembered. The first job was actually to work for an individual photographer who did a lot of Vogue fashion shoots.Oh.And I remember meeting Anne Scott-James in fact now. That’s, that’s interesting becaus[…]
[…]now where to go. I started applying for jobs as a darkroom assistant, and I did actually get a job as a darkroom assistant. Working for Vogue fashion photographer. I never took the job up because prior to that, although I was given the job, the headmaster at the school chapel Walker, he was a Southg[…]
[…] I was officially paid as a PA because that was what the union said had to be. That was very interesting. And I've still got some of the photographic stills and I helped her a lot on that. And I was very proud and pleased to be able to do it because she is she is the most organised director I've eve[…]
[…] wouldn't take our stuff for reasons of their own I suppose so I had to come home. But I wanted to come back and if I could get back I had a job as a stills photographer with the Sub Secretariat in Barcelona. And while I was back I went to see Charles Duff who edited a paper called Spain today who a[…]
BILLY WILLIAMS SIDE 3, TAPE 2 Al: You were saying about John and Benny coming and helping out Billy Williams: […]
[…] one, we got about 8 minutes into it and the stills man decided to take a flash because he thought […]
