[…]e no commercials until the tail end of my career as a camera man. Now, commercials are perhaps the most important part of our industry as far as film technicians are concerned (yes) and it’s the most buoyant part of the industry because it’s regular and you know that whatever happens a certain numbe[…]
[…] subscription. But nobody went to the meetings! See, no skilled technician went to the bloody meetings, only the clapper boys […]
[…] recall like Bill Ward producing, because he'd been in, a technician in his early days. Have you done The Bill […]
[…]Sheldon Hall on their team. As the tent was really Radio Tyneside territory, and largely staffed throughout the week by their teams of presenters and technicians, there was no real call on having Cinema Managers in attendance but they still showed face and helped out on the film stand. As a result s[…]
[…]arson, whose daughter I think was Winifred Pearson, who became the secretary to George Elvin of the AC t as it was there in the association of Sydney technicians. And she was the continuity girl on this film. I thought this is absolutely marvellous. I mean, I'm on a film for the first time I was a c[…]
[…] on my fan list and of course he came to play the doctor. So, the film had quite a lot of magic for me. And I got the opportunity to see some amazing technicians at work. Jack Hilliard the cameraman. Brilliant. [TIME 00.19.59]MARTIN SHEFFIELD. So, what was the next stage after that?NORMAN J WAR[…]
[…]es and to distribute them on video. And so, in a sense, my career began with television being a very low quality and regarded by film makers and film technicians as something of a joke and not worth not worth working in. And ended with being the sort of luckiest of television to us. outlets, outlets[…]
[…], because they were paying the studio by the day, you see, so they couldn't possibly do it in that. So the overtime was used a hell of a lot, but the technicians, we got no overtime. The 'sparks' did, the workmen, but the technicians got nothing! We could work every night until one o'clock in the mo[…]
[…]place, as a production manager and accountant, again because I could add up a row of figures, which not everybody can—although I wanted to be a technician. INTERVIEWER: Who was in charge of DATA Films at that time? CHARLES SMITH: Oh, now. It was, as I say, a cooperative unit. The chi[…]
[…]ater on he didn’t do anything I don’t think. Just sat there. Your memories of Frieze Green and Tommy Bentley.C. D. Tommy Bentley was a very agreeable technician. Everybody got on very well with Tommy.R. F. A competent technician?C. D. I just wouldn’t know. I couldn’t have cared less at the time. It […]
