[…]and I remember that, after I had been there for about a month, Jack Chambers… oh, and there was Wolf Suschitzky who was there too. TD: The cameraman. AY: The cameraman, he was a part of this group and Jack Chambers said to me: “Would you like to go and make a film up.. and make[…]
[…]h hall or something, we sat there and watchedall these men in khaki shorts come on to the screen and say their message.I can tell you the name of the cameraman, it was Jackie Achelor [ph], I think, because I was in India with a film unit and that message home unit turned up on several occasions, I r[…]
[…]f two pound a week, which was fantastic you see! Well, [chuckles] my career was rather short-lived there! Jack Parker was charming, he was a lighting cameraman, and we were doing terrible Wally and Barry Lupino 'quota quickies' - absolutely disastrous films, they were! And I suppose I must have been[…]
[…]robably wouldn't be a bad idea. So then I went back to Ealing and the job gone of course but I had I had the fortunate thing of living next door to a cameraman called Jack Whitehead and Jack Whitehead got me a job in the sound department at Chip's Bush studios. Why were you so keen on major so keen […]
[…]:00 – 00:05:22 Introductions; DD first entered a film studio in 1914 at the age of 12; a cousin asked to be an extra on the film England Wake Up with cameraman Otto Rieve and director Tom Watts; his cousin was offered a job at [Quick’s, St Martins ?] where he acquired junk film which DD would edit a[…]
[…]Producers tended to be a bit slow in those days, they may be artistically beautiful but on the techniques they had no idea you know, so to hurry up a cameraman I would shout over.2. Technical breakdownsBH: I did a play with Rudi Cartier, there was Peter Ustinov on the floor. We just started and the […]
[…] I think it was a Sinclair. I'll tell you who operated that, was Adrian Jeakins - do you remember Jeaks?Kay Mander: Yes, yesJoy Batchelor: He was the cameraman, he was gorgeous. And in fact the only one of that bunch who did anything afterwards, apart from me.Kay Mander: Were these films for cinema?[…]
