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[…] I put a polar screen on and a bit of lighting and cut down the reflection as much as possible. […]

HP0190 David Attenborough – Transcript

[…] is vested in the BECTU History Project. David Attenborough, television director, producer. Interviewer Norman Swallow, recorded 8 April 1991 Recordist: […]

Cornel Lucas

[…]?CL I didn’t say what to him. To him I was very but I didn’t realise what I had taken on so my quick reaction was to talk to Jack Hibberd who was the lighting cameraman on Dietrich’s film. Jack was a friend of mine. Senior to me but very helpful.  He said Cornel she’s a very difficult woman so […]

Michael Colomb

[…]o assistant boom operators. And if the boom moved, went there, he knew exactly was no messing around. And of course he  was highly respected and lighting cameraman always lit for the boom in those days becauseAlan Lawson  4:19  if you had to.Michael Colomb  4:22  And that in[…]

Emmanuel (Manny) Yospa

[…]e as extraordinarily unfair is the credit system.Manny Yospa: Oh that, in those days too. In those days only the, sort of, producer, director and the lighting cameraman had a credit, none of us had any credit - I mean screen credits. We had credit lists where we...Charles Drazin: And was that someth[…]

Nancy Thomas

[…][NB: Identities not clear] Duration: 02:24:07The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Nancy Thomas, television producer/director. Interviewer Norman Swallow. Recorded on the twenty-fifth of January 1991.Well, if you don’t mind, you know, when and where were you born?I w[…]

Rudolph (Rudi) Cartier

[…] up questions.]SIDE 1, TAPE 1Norman Swallow: When did you come to Britain and under what circumstancesRudi Cartier: I was the first person as a young director to direct the first film ever made by Sam Spiegel, he had no experience as a producer, so when it was made here, Sam Spiegel went to, he said[…]

Charles Crichton

CHARLES CRICHTONThe copyright of this material is invested in the BECTU History ProjectCharles Crichton, director, interviewer Sid Cole, recorded 15 December 1988,SIDE 1, TAPE 1SC: Let's start at the beginning, tell me when you were born and where you were educated and so on.CC: I was born in 1910, […]

Gordon McCallum

[…]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 […]

A A (Tubby) Englander

[…]reddie was there as the chief cameraman and I went there, I became Freddie Young's operator to start off with. And after a couple o months I became a lighting cameraman. But Freddie all the time, of course, was keeping his eye on what was going on. There were three others then, there was Freddie Fra[…]
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