Rosamund John (Silkin)

[…]until Leslie showed up before we could start any work. And Leslie of course who was a complete happy go lucky chap said happily it's the fault of the lighting man but it was in fact because Leslie didn't want to get to the studios early in the morning. And this was an incident that I happen to remem[…]

Maurice Elvey

[…]heard of! Such things didn't exist. People were only employed not from picture to picture but from day to day. I mean, your cameraman - there were no lighting men in those days; the cameraman did the lighting - your cameraman would be, probably, on a day to day rate; certainly not more than a weekly[…]

John Shearman

[…]to see that everybody was in the right place at the right moment was something that I admired enormously amongst professional technicians. For a good lighting camera man, to be able to call up which lamps he wanted on the whole rail and on the floor and get it right and see that the work was done by[…]

Cecil Buckland

[…]f you wanted anything, you got it alright. There were no problems at all. I found the Directors and, I think, the staff, I mean there was one chap, a Lighting Director called Hugh, Hugh McLeod? I: McLauchlan, yes. R: Hugh McLauchlan, on the show and he nodded to me a few times and I didn't[…]

Louise Willcox

[…]tudios, there aren't apprenticeships in production areas, their apprenticeships in engineering, I've yet to see an apprenticeship in sound cameras or lighting. In studios. Yeah, because I think we were doing one here, which is aUnknown Speaker  43:28  broadcast sound. Oh, got a joint one b[…]
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