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BILLY WILLIAMS Lighting cameraman Interviewer John Taylor, with Alan Lawson, recorded on 20 November 1991 Copyright BECTU History Project John […]

Eileen Diss

[…] and Head of Drama at the BBC. He initiated the creation of Doctor Who in 1963.16 Sean Kenny (1929-1973) was an Irish set, costume and lighting designer. He is most notable for his work with Lionel Bart on musicals including Oliver! (1960). ED: I tried to make it l[…]

Peter Sargent

[…]hing except a pretty girl if there was one, and food. It never struck me that it was going to lead to a life, and as I worked with some of the finest lighting cameramen in the world, because Gaumonts had German, French, Japanese, all nationalities working as lighting cameramen.DB. Did you know Fredd[…]

Sydney Samuelson

[…] you put the money in I’ll open a camera department...er....and I know, s, I know how to do it. So they became er they were always by far the biggest lighting rental company. But they were, they then had a major camera department, which was major competition to us and .... there were a number of oth[…]

Peter Proud

[…]ell, we got drunk, really. We wanted to get down and kill the boys whowere lighting squibs and throwing them at the girl's legs.What happened careerwise after that?I[…]

Peter Tanner

[…]CT, I had one crew had Riverside doing my documentary and another crew at Teddington doing this feature.Roy Fowler: They'll be after you for moonlighting.Peter Tanner: I'm afraid they would. That's the only time I ever did it. I don't approve of moonlighting anyway, in all honesty but it w[…]

Bryan Langley

[…]amera would be out of focus so that the mingling from the model to the actual was an out of focus blur. So it was really imperceptible so long as the lighting was level. Naturally if you overexposed one or the other you could tell it but generally speaking it was jolly good. They could do all sort o[…]

Simon Rose

[…]cause men, everybody has to start at the bottom of learning, learn some trade and work their way up, rather than just arriving according themselves a director or something. And it also meant that people weren't exploited. Because everybody has been a union, the shop steward would check that they wer[…]

Ray Harryhausen

[…]ional in Hollywood who used to come and lecture at the museum.SPEAKER: M11And uh uh. At school as well. And uh all these people they would get an art director. Some of the various art directors of that time to come and give lectures at night school and USC and uh.SPEAKER: M5But it was an early cours[…]
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