[…]ery specialised job. The main problem was safety. You couldn't use anything electrical unless it had been passed by the Inspectorate of Mines. So our lighting consisted of heavy armoured units, strong enough to contain any explosion. If any gas got inside and ignited, the explosion had to be contain[…]
[…] worked side by side, master and apprentice. That's how we got our training. That's one thing that's gone. And it's not just training of exposure and lighting. It's the training of the whole production technique as well. How to manage people, how to work with people, how to work with the general pub[…]
[…]l you wanted to have a chat with your director...trouble is with some of them to get them to communicate.John Legard: And did you have your favourite lighting cameraman to do your work justice as it were? I mean, did you have favourite people then?Peggy Gick: Well I only worked on [such] a lot of sm[…]
Copyright is vested in the BECTU History ProjectFREDDIE FRANCIS, lighting cameraman, feature film director, interviewer Alan Lawson, recorded on 24 November 1993SIDE 1, TAPE 1Alan Lawson: When and where were you born?Freddie Francis: I was born in the wilds of North London, Barnesbury, north London […]
[…]Legard 3:02 your who else worked on that?John Hargreaves 3:05 Jimmy Ritchie was the principal camera man and what a beautiful lighting camera man from night exteriors. He was wonderful. I always felt he was wasted as a producer. Marvellous camera mad standing a marvellous blo[…]
[…]ughs] Or words to that effect! And they wanted an interpreter, a German interpreter - English-German interpreter - for Hans Schneeberger, who was the lighting cameraman on 'Conquest of the Air', (I can't remember who... Yes, that's right,...) and he had a focus puller called Karl Matthews. That's im[…]
[…]s was?Tilly Day: That was two famous dancers were dancing there. You had an awful lot of men around didn't you, in those days? I mean there were lighting blokes, you know...Alan Lawson: Hmm, electricians all around the rails here...Sidney Cole: Yes.Tilly Day: Oh, an awful lot the[…]
[…] can remember a very talented young designer, Lionel Radford, God love him, he's, he went far too prematurely with some dreaded thing. And I had, the lighting director was Geoff Shaw. and his console operator was Ken MacGregor, and I mention that because Ken MacGregor must have been associated with […]
[…].45.06) “I need a warlock and I need a beautiful witch to ...” “You do the drawing, black and white, and then I will put stuff round it and lighting and it will be in an antiquarian book which I, the actor in the film, will hold and we will zoom in to the drawing and dissolve to the real p[…]
[…]e side set or something and as we were doing this chat with somebody I saw a boom shadow. So I said OK right hold it studio hold it everybody and the lighting director lovely Dickie Hyams who died a couple of years ago he slid the glass thing. Open and said What have you stopped for. And I said well[…]
