[…]l that sort of thing.Alan Lawson: Yes, yes.Leonard Harris: Now he was pretty good and Hibbert I think was a very clever man but he'd been an old time cameraman and I think really in the old time when they hand cranked and just called him in on an odd occasion. I don't think he'd ever been a camerama[…]
[…]rry battlers. Jack Cox and Arthur Crabtree and when I started directing there, I upgraded Phil Grindrod who was our operator and he became a lighting cameraman and he did several for me. They all knew their job. Basil Emmott was another one. He was a terror. He'd been so used to photographing wild a[…]
[…]ke a film about about the manoeuvres it was although I suppose one was, in a sense was directing the film in fact, it was worth more than telling the cameraman what what to cover because it was essentially a matter of picking up what was being what one could of being a mock battle being fought[…]
[…] came raman's course." This is how Pinewood got me. A cameraman's course was a War Office posting. Your regiment could […]
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Cyril Pennington-Richards (cameraman and director) 17/12/1911 - 2/1/2005by admin — last modified Aug 12, 2008 12:43 PMBECTU History Project - Interview No. 122[Copyright BECTU] Transcription Date: 2003-08-13Interview Date: 1990-01-09Interviewer: Alan Lawson and Colin Moffat Inter[…]
[…]tone, we had five sound units. Camerra ... of course using the Movietone AEO-light system which was incorporated in the camera so you had a crew of a cameraman and a soundman and your own car adapted to carry all this with a strengthened roof with camera clamps on it. You've probably seen pictures o[…]
[…]e a point where you could earn more money. That's right. Jeff really was one of nature's operators, yes. And the other thing was, I remember a German cameraman called Gunter cramp. Yes, we used to operate for himself asSpeaker 3 22:05 well as he was probably the first one ever to do that[…]
