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[…]ld be certain amount of competition between them. You did also get, I don’t know whether you could call it unfair competition. There was a lab called Visnews who were mainly concerned, as the names suggests, with news processing. So film would come from all round the world. If there’s a disaster in […]

[…]ore but I think it’s a big risk because people of your and my age remember that when it was announced with huge pride way back in the 1970s that when Visnews were transferring their archive to video and encountered all sorts of problems including transferring silent film using sound film aperture ga[…]

[…]d cup so I had to make all the arrangements there. We were the liaison company for Movietone and any other outfit that was filming there.John Turner: Visnews?Alan Lawson: Visnews, yes.John Turner: Anyway, all the passes and things were sent to us and for distribution. Well, I was living in Eastbourn[…]

[…]ad. I can remember an incident when we were doingthe Olympic Games, we were in Jamaica - Kingston. And I took a combined team out ofnewsreel people - Visnews - do you remember? Well, I took Visnews camera men and ITNcamera men with me to cover, on a rota basis, the Commonwealth Games. And I can reme[…]

[…]d er...He...he was the only other cameraman I...I came across. But then there was this other chap, Paddy Kingham, that came out, and he came out from VISNEWS. And er...I don't know what happened, but he arrived out there and er he was, ooh, you know, er...all over...You know, he was the big "I am", […]

[…]%... not a democracy…”  Strike threat opening day of ITV. Agreement reached at 4pm. TV people “got outlandish pay compared to Labs. Same at Visnews “3 days on, 3days off”. Alf compares wages there with wages at Technicolor. “robbed me ever since”.01:48:56:13Len “What changed Technicolor wa[…]