Harry Courcha

[…]ou know, a sort of sounding board. You know what I mean?Yes, of course.Yes. [Laughter]Well, thank you Harry Courcha. I think, mm, we can say you’re a technician, an academic, a trade unionist, a philosophic explorer and a socialist?Very much.And thank you very much Harry Courcha.How long was that?Th[…]

Les Ostinelli

BEHP 0266 T Les Ostinelli Transcript LES OSTINELLI Cameraman/laboratory technician/lab contact man Interviewed by Alan Lawson and Sid Wilson, on 5 November 1992 Copyright BECTU History Project SIDE 1, TAPE 1 Alan Lawson: When and where were you born Les Ostinelli: I was born in London, Euston, 1918,[…]

Stanley W Sayer

[…]; met George Cave who interviewed him for a job; first job was on Wings of the Morning (first British Technicolor film); then trained by the American technicians – became a focus puller, serviced the camera, loaded the camera; early cameramen on Technicolor films were American; worked with Eric Cros[…]

Joan Kemp-Welch

[…]nd 'The Dolls House', and things like that). And she did a play called 'Nina' at the Criterion, and this play had Cecil Parker in it, who was a great technician, and Hugh Mellor who had been trained by the Habima Players....Roy Fowler: I'm gonna have to stop you. [End of Tape 2, Side 3] [Tape 2[…]

Ronald Neame

[…]fowl or good red herring. The the production had its crew. It had his camera man, it had its assistant camera man, it's still a man and all the other technicians and I was just an anon body. And I felt that I been that Joe Grossman in trying to help my mother knowing that she was flat broke. I knew […]
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