[…], that's sort of a special moment in can when you've got all these sort of the people from the the sound people, the the picture people, all, all the technicians gathering to put to make sure that your film is shown as beautifully as possible. The only problem is it's usually at two o'clock in the m[…]
[…]e. Well you continued to nip about!PM: Yeah, well that period – also because the film industry was in a bad state – ACT [Association of Cinematograph Technicians – the trade union. DS] allowed you to move between departments. A kind of distant cousin of mine, Peter Hunt was…DB: An editor.PM: Editing[…]
[…]was anyway, a James Bond set-up.Jim Shields: It was Thunderball.Bill Welch: Yeah. And er, those noises, without any question or doubt - I mean I'm no technician, not in the same sense as yourself and the other people - but those noises were marvellous noises, they sounded underwater, although we kno[…]
[…]e same job. It's an opportunity for companies although spending a lot of money on the technology to reduce their running costs by not having to pay a technician necessarily to run the projection room. And this is an increasing sadness to me.I don't imagine that the people in control of large compani[…]
[…]treated differently from male colleagues? Katy McGahan 25:21 Well? Yes, yes, it was. It varied. I mean, most of the actual technicians were all right, but if there was an opportunity of putting you down, it did happen. In fact, there was one occasion, which is actually on […]
[…]school, about six o’clock because it’s not really very far away and going over there… I used to have another job actually in the morning as a pottery technician in a school. So I used to go after that and then I used to work at the weekends or at night. I used to take my matte painting home with me […]
[…]e up to… instead of being a Y2YC… that was a youth on a two year training course… Instea… I got made up from being a Y2YC to a T2O… a T2A… that was a technician class 2A… and… I was on the maintenance of automatic switching equipment at Greenwich Exchange in London, near where I went to school in Bl[…]
[…]olor; PB remembers test on an Ilford stock for archive purposes.00:23:30 – 00:30:00 Restoration work; started at NFTVA in the1970s when work for film technicians was sparse (unless working on commercials); one Debry machine and a printing machine when he started working with Harold Brown; very littl[…]
[…]ished, so that, as far as the unions were concerned,women could not be accepted in technical jobs. So that, if you applied to the union tobe a camera technician, they sent a letter back and saying, ‘We do not accept womenin these jobs.’I thought being at the film school automatically...Yes, well tha[…]
