Searching for Jack Cox

[…] and in the 1920s Cox advertised himself as ‘Maurice Elvey’s cameraman’. While many of their films are now lost, their […]

Paul Collard

[…]k through the film and creating a halo effect. In effect, halation. I’ve got a very interesting story from around about 1980. David Watkin the famous cameraman who was cameraman on Out of Africa, he shot Chariots of Fire which was a film that we processed, and prior to the shooting he[…]

John Frame

[…], if my salary is big enough then they won't mind me moving to television!' Which they did so I got into E.T.V., worked my way up - Camera Assistant, Cameraman, Film Floor Manager, Film Editor, which I loved! Loved taking the Arri[flex 16mm camera] out in the morning, sending out the stock over to H[…]

Jimmy Nairn

[…]fferent things and one of them, whose name I remember clearly (I remember a lot of their names) but one of them was David Bell. Now, David Bell was a cameraman I'm pretty certain and then he became a Floor Manager and then he became a Director and then he went to another television place, company, a[…]

Robert Scott

[…] You had to have certain training to get your ticket to be whatever so it maintained a certain standard whereas nowadays anyone can call themselves a cameraman and there are a lot of good cameramen about who are just, have done it themselves, but there are also some who are not so good. But that's b[…]

Bernard Ponsonby

[…]irst interview! My first interview was an interview with Professor Bill Miller, Professor of Politics at Glasgow University. Danny Livingston was the Cameraman, Dorothy Le Grove was on Sound and of course, in those days, camera crews tended to be paired off. It was Danny and Dot or Danny and Ken McN[…]

John Mackay

[…]ey were - but I do remember when I first started quite often there would still be a Sound Operator. So, I remember going out with Ross Armstrong, the cameraman, and Neil McCallum would do his sound, for example. But I think it was just, I just came in at the cusp when sound was moving, Camera Operat[…]
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