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BSC OPERATORS’ NIGHT
The Pairing Scheme Award presentation from Mark Fisher MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with Rachel Baker of Fuji and Christine Monk (right) of Sony Broadcast and Professional.
POSITIVELY FUJIFILM
PAIRING SCHEME AWARD
POSITIVELY NOT FUJIFILM
Freddie Francis, veteran British cinematographer and a double Oscar-winner, received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual BSC Operators Night held at Pinewood last November.
Presided over by BSC President Mike Southon, the event, staged in a marquee attached to the studio restaurant, was attended by more than 200 with Sir Sydney Samuelson CBE as the guest of honour.
The Society’s Best Cinematography award went to Alex Thomson for Hamlet while his operator Martin Kenzie made it a Shakespeare double by winning the Guild of British Camera Technicians’ Operators Award. Thomson pipped John Seale (The English Patient), Darius Khondji (Evita) and Chris Menges
(Michael Collins).
The Bert Easey Technical Award was presented to Jean- Pierre Beauviala for his contri- bution to the advancement of film camera technology. And the John Alcott Memorial Award, from Arri, found an equally popular recipient in Joe Dunton, in appreciation of his tremendous contribution furthering the aims of the BSC.
The evening, which raised more than £4,000 for donation to the CTBF and Great Ormond Street Hospital, also remembered respected techni- cians who’d died over the past year. These included Gerry Turpin, Dick Bush, Ray Parslow, Arthur Ibbetson, Freddie Cooper, Chic Waterson, Ian Craig and Frankie Batt. ■
Top left: BSC President Mike Southon, Sir Sydney Samuelson and Peter Newbrook Top right: Alex Thomson with Sir Sydney Centre left: Joe Dunton and Horst Bergmann Centre right: Jean-Pierre Beauviala and Mike Southon Above: Ossie Morris and Freddie Francis Left: Hugh Whittaker and Martin Kenzie.
First shipments of Fujifilm’s new colour positive film, type 3519, will be available in the UK from this April. The new product features more faithful tonal reproduction, giving better highlight detail, more natural colour reproduction - especially blues and greens - as well as excellent matching capability for check prints. It also has fine Laser subtitling capacity.
And from now on, all Fujicolor Positive film will be supplied on a Polyester base. ■
Errata - Mike Molloy, whom we interviewed in EXPOSURE, Autumn 1997 would like to point out that Welcome To Woop-Woop was, in fact, actuallyshotonKodak.
FESTIVALS & EVENTS
FESTIVALS & EVENTS