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60
CINE TECHNICIAN
April 1956
CINE QUIZ
1. Who is She? 2. In What Picture?
3. Who directed it? 4. When?
(Answers on page 61, column 1)
Camera Column
NEW RATES. No doubt you have all heard about the rise A.C.T. secured for us. But I still say that we are hired to work a 44-hour week, and if we work overtime, then we are entitled to the same overtime payments as everybody else, that is TIME AND A HALF.
DESERVED BREAK. KEN
HODGES has been promoted to Lighting Cameraman on the Robin Hood series at Ncttlefolds Studios for Sapphire Productions SYDNEY COLE informs me that he is doing a good job. Keep it up, Ken.
NEW FILM HOUSE. The new
block of Hats called Kemble House, in Dean Street, ought to be called the New Film House. Its tenants include TONY YOUNG, Camera Operator GERRY LEWIS, Director MAURICE ELVEY and funny man NAT JACKLEY, who is doing his best to drive all the other tenants crazy.
GOOD NEWS. SKEETS KELLY
has made a wonderful recovery and will be convalescing for the next two months. Anybody wishing to drop him a line can do so
to Flat 4, The Friary, Old Windsor, Berks, telephone Windsor 2352. I am sure he would be glad to hear from all his friends.
BACK IN ENGLAND. I notice
that Cameraman LAURIE FREEMAN is back in London, looking as dapper as ever.
LOCATION PERSIA. Merton Park Studios have sent a unit out to Persia, to make a film on the Persian oil pipe line. ROLAND STAFFORD is director cameraman, DICKY BALLY is assistant camera. They left on 25th February and will be away eight weeks, and I have just heard that Baily contracted malaria but Stafford is still hale and hearty.
VIEWFINDER
THOSE UNITED STATES
" In due modesty it must be acknowledged that there are probably not many Americans who can successfully follow Shakespeare's magnificent English even when so expertly delivered by Sir Laurence Olivier and other members of the fine cast. The concentration required is a factor limiting entertainment value " — Motion Picture Herald, New York, on Richard III, 17/3/56.
Jobs on our Books
The following vacancies have been notified to Head Office.
GEORGE HUMPHRIES LABORATORIES LTD.
Printers Positive Dryers Chemical Mixers. Grade II Projectionist 35mm.
TECHNICOLOR LTD. - EASTMANCOLOR PROCESSING PLANT
1 Negative Handler — two shifts,
day and night.
2 Colour Printers — Two shifts,
day and night.
2 Colour Developers Two
shifts, day and night.
3 Projectionist Viewers Two,
shifts, day and night.
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