[…]and inkies, but also the gauze. Is how the gauze is made, make use of certain ways and achieve a quality which really is he was an artist and a great technician and highly educated person. You see, I hope you forgive me saying this, the majority of people I was associated with at that time were very[…]
The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Alf Cooper, lab technician, interviewed by Len Runkels on October the twenty-third 1988. Side one.How old were, how old are you Alfred?I’ll be, I was seventy-six in September this year. I was born in twelve.1912?September Twelve.[…]
[…] too much. I was much more on the local news and current affairs programmes. So that the main area of change was that the production team, I mean the technicians, always were fairly skilled in their craft, but so were the production team and the directors. Particularly if you worked on program[…]
[…]her way in which they could do, very quickly and very efficiently, this jump action framing. So whilst I was there of course I met quite a lot of the technicians from Gaumont's and they used to come on the floor, on my floor as it were and have a look and have a natter and watch what was going on, i[…]
[…]ne of Warwick pictures came up and, obviously, he wanted to do it and it was in the prime days in the film industry with no other technicians were [sic] available. So, to get his son in the picture Sid Randall sent me down today to Danziger’s studios and that's how[…]
[…]ny people worked at Islington, Because itseems to be very much a family, was it a happy familyMaurice Carter: Very. Albert Whitlock was then, a great technician in America, he usedto mix the paint for the painters and do any sign writing, he was there officially as a signwriter: Roy Fowler: Was he d[…]
[…] you start with? Element, film,Unknown Speaker 13:37 unit, 50 Bob, I should think,Unknown Speaker 13:41 what other what other technicians Did you work with at LMS? Besides, you know the camera man,Unknown Speaker 13:51 there was a man called Richard Beck who wasUn[…]
[…] I was very keen. To get into the film business and he had lost three technicians who got into the Royal Air Force and. That's how I compare first job[…]
[…]at way.KGY: £1 a week was extremely low even then.CC: It was. I don't know. Yes, it was. When I went to Technicolor which was much later as a trainee technician I only earned about £3/10shwhich was about the right rate.KGY: You went from that to becoming assistant cameramanCC: Yes. I enjoyed the new[…]
[…] apart and have a look at it. And they weren't about it. Because it costs the BBC in effect, a fantastic amount of money, just people because they're technicians, engineers, they want to know how this was done just to satisfy their curiosity, and a project which of course is wonderful, probably the […]
