Charlotte Jennings

[…] masking, and we used to allow for widescreen screening when we shot the stuff, but it's a just conventional, it wasn't anamorphic anything, but some cameraman like to see their rushes on wide screen to see what they would look like, you know, when they're showing the cinemas, McAllister refused to […]

Bill Cotton

[…]w with Peter Sellers and did oneshow with Peter Sellers tearing up the captions, he justwent to the caption roller and just tore the thing off andthe cameraman out of fear pulled back so you saw Petertearing it and he's saying it's all that bloody Sloan andhis lineaments.John Taylor: Was that liveBi[…]

John Halas

[…]e ACTT, how did you get involved with the ACTT, who recruited you John Halas: to ways it was. First I employed labour, one day a charming blonde cameraman turned up at Bush House, his name was a Ralph Bond, we nearly fell in love with each other and he taught me a great deal about how to employ[…]

Charles Cooper

[…]the States. Actually prior to going to the States, in March of that year I had applied to the British Air Force for whether I could get in there as a cameraman, and the things was rejected on the fact that my parents were foreign-born. So that I decided then that the next scheme would be to go to Me[…]

Marion Grierson (Taylor)

[…]d to make a propaganda film for selling tomatoes and we did this cartoon style which was really adventurous for us in these premises. My professional cameraman was William Shenton , at that time we hired cameramen by the day because we couldn’t afford to have one on the staff. However, others were t[…]

Charles Crichton

[…]main impression, I was very impressed by the way this American locations were amazingly done in the studio.CC: I think part of the credit goes to the cameraman, Chris Challis and partly goes to me. But Chris used very little light. There was suggestions rather than,The way Lionel X would have lit it[…]

Gordon McCallum

[…]ms at B & D and - now who else directed? Lee Garmes directed a Jack Buchanan picture I remember at...Alan Lawson : Lee Garmes - really? What, the cameraman?Gordon McCallum : Would you believe it? Now that was - what picture? Mara Loseff and Jack Buchanan in - and I've forgotten. Lee Garmes, yes […]

Doris Martin

[…]teau isn't it?DM: Yes. Oh I was I was so glad I did it, I loved it. I got on so well with Jack, it was funny, we had a lovely little native assistant cameraman, Mathew Kipoem [?]. And there were just the three of us, afterwards. But I went out to do this episode with him and we got alright then. And[…]
Scroll to Top