[…] lesser extent. I met Jimmy Allen in in Bombay by accident. Many years later, and he had gone perhaps finished up one might say ended his career as a lighting cameraman in India. He didn't shoot but he lit these great sets with the Indian dances and theatricals and so on. India became the last refug[…]
[…]. So that's the way it went, you know, so, um, but it was, it was employed a lot of people. I think one of the strangest things about it was the, the lighting was always a problem. I mean, the form the photographic side, but it was so heavy the equipment and we had all these electricians, you know, […]
[…]er months, late spring months.  Ernest Maxin  42:27  However, once again, a continual learning process and I learned my lighting for shows from a man called Robert Nesbitt, who was a very good lighting designer in the West End theatre. And however Where did I get to? Wh[…]
[…]thing to do with it. And, yes, you see they were such a team.Yes, yes, yes.[10:00]But, I.... We’ll see, did we mention any other names? The wonderful lighting,cameraman on Thunder Rock.Y es.Whose name in those days was Mutz Greenbaum.Mary Harvey DRAFT Tape 2 Side A62Y es.And some years later, f[…]
[…] salary of two pound a week, which was fantastic you see! Well, [chuckles] my career was rather short-lived there! Jack Parker was charming, he was a lighting cameraman, and we were doing terrible Wally and Barry Lupino 'quota quickies' - absolutely disastrous films, they were! And I suppose I must […]
[…]ght on the screen and you have enough light to read what you're doing near to hand. And that was a constant problem, we always were trying to improve lighting so that it wasn't too much eyestrain. Anyway, that's by the way, it's a problem for dubbing mixers and one that really is very important for […]
[…] of Interview: 6 March 1987 Interview length (mins): 1.25[WA note: There might be a second interview with Eric Cross] Arthur Graham: Eric Cross, Lighting Cameraman. Eric where were you born and when?Eric Cross: Finchley, 31 May 1902.Arthur Graham: What kind of schooling did you receive?Eric Cro[…]
[…] was agreed that, yes, if I'd like a job, I could have one. And there at the queens, that was really the smallest Show on Earth. It had gas secondary lighting. So every, every afternoon you lit the mantles after the show, you put them out. There was a circle there. And every morning, you had to spra[…]
