[…]ther companies and taking the manufacturing information with them. So, we weren’t exposed to a lot of the concepts other than working with a specific technician for a product line. They would come and talk to us about various things so probably better talking to somebody within that context like Ala[…]
[…]d done a lovely film called Josphenine and he asked me if I would shoot Black Beauty. And it was in Ireland and I was available and I was a freelance technician so I jumped at the opportunity. It was a completely different experience. I’m not saying it was an unhappy experience but the whole… it was[…]
[…]hings so I used to print the photos, develop and print the photographs that the photographers would take so I saw an advert for a Stills Photographic Technician that sounded great in Scottish Television and this was, I stayed there for a couple of years and then I applied for the job with Scottish T[…]
[…] off, as most people did, doing camera and then, eventually, you were allowed to actually do the engineering of the camera once the audio visual unit technicians had worked out that you were actually competent in what you were doing because it was quite easy to, they were very good cameras and it wa[…]
[…]ward for the Producer/Director section and Malcolm Foster was the main Shop Steward for the ACTT [Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians] and he came up to sort of say goodbye to me and to wish me luck at STV and I can't remember the guy's name who was the Shop Steward here […]
[…]reserved for him. And when I went there, there was Peter Lamont, the chair Derek meddings And there was coffee and his wife Dana and my two other key technicians myself. And we had a very nice lunch and he was chatting What do y'all been doing since the last film and then Derek made it and said, and[…]
[…] it was felt, you see, his theory was you had to be able to do everything. Because he was constantly buggered about. He used to say about the elderly technicians that would tell him what couldn't be done, never would do. Drifters, he always claimed - I can't remember the name of the cameraman, but h[…]
[…]ossmith, the, the diary of a nobody. And he needed to find an editor that he felt was compatible. The front office didn't like these little groups of technicians who got together, they felt they hadn't got any control over them. But they there. Ken was already making a good name for himself with thi[…]
[…]re and I have to say, the whole, what shall I say, philosophy, method of selecting people to work in film libraries is usually taking the failed film technicians. If you weren’t a very good cameraman or a very good editor they thought ‘Oh put them in the library, they can’t do much harm there.[…]
