[…] Hollywood, when I did 'Tom Brown's Schooldays'. We had a cameraman named Nick- Nicaraca [sic] or something. He was of […]
[…]room] ... What you see. And it was for commercials. Iimagine it was built as a photographic studio. So, then it did commercials and it had a resident cameraman. And suddenly there I am knowing and called to do this day with The Beatles. And they come, and they play pranks all the time. Youknow, if t[…]
[…]er: Yes. Who were some of the technicians, then, in the senior positions? Heads of departments?Vernon Sewell: Well Geoffrey Faithfull was a cameraman and his assistant was Arthur Grant, who became quite a good cameraman in later years in his own right. In fact, he lit one of my movies, in […]
[…]hite days?L.P. Williams : No, not really, no. The only time I've come up against that was in Hollywood, when I did 'Tom Brown's Schooldays'. We had a cameraman named Nick- Nicaraca [sic] or something. He was of Italian descent or something. And he'd come into being a cameraman by being a chauffeur a[…]
[…]stinct] when that possibility became available, which they went along with, DATA, and it was about 1945 that I got transferred to become an assistant cameraman. And the Chief Cameraman—well, the permanent cameraman at DATA was Wolfgang Suschitzky, and I became his assistant full time, for something […]
[…]robe mistress was and his make-up girl was and I did know most of them because they were his crew. And he said do you know Ronnie Taylor, my lighting cameraman, and I said I don't think we have ever met. He came over and I said I am glad to meet you at last, I'm such a fan. He said we've met. I said[…]
[…]the Ram Gopal film too with a totally Indian unit.What was their reaction to you, the actual unit? Did they accept you just like that?The documentary cameraman did, but not the features, you know. I mean it was a very...I was very cut off, I mean I just had to get on with it as best I could. But it […]
[…] of night without armour. Now there's something other. So the film was photographed by a man called Harry straddling STR a D li Ng, who was Hollywood cameraman, who was a rather tough chap and a man called Jack Cardiff Cir, di WF was on one of the two or three small units they had. He was, I think a[…]
[…]s an assistant for a year or two. AndJohn Taylor 29:35 we are working withPaddy Carey 29:42 Bob Walker who is not a very good cameraman actually was the first one I worked with. Most of them are not very distinguished. I think the younger ones had all joined up and and the th[…]
[…]ilm Unit and Alex Brice had taken over from him, and he said, there is not really much doing with sound at the moment, would you like to try and be a cameraman? I said, yes all right. And there were courses going on all the time to train people as cameramen, people who had some experience of photogr[…]