Stuart Crombie + Sid Peru + Dick Warman
Robert Philpot
used to be my chief at TFS and was always fondly remembered as "Stuart
Crombie on Grams", although I never really knew why. (The Stuart might be
spelled Stewart.)
Also Sid Peru the cameraman who worked with me there for a short time in Mag
Transfer.
Finally one Dick Warman a freelance sound engineer, who would by now be well
into his retirement.
The reason for the requests is a book that I'm writing; I want to get their
permission to use certain anecdotes.
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Martin Underwood
>Also Sid Peru the cameraman who worked with me there for a short time in
Mag
>Transfer.
Wasn't Sid Perou (I think that's how his name is spelled) the "stunt"
cameraman whom the BBC always used when anything dangerous needed filming -
like on top of Nelson's Column, abseiling down a cliff, hanging underneath a
balloon, potholing, etc? I used to see his name in lots of credits at one
time.
Robert Philpot
cameraman whom the BBC always used when anything dangerous needed filming -
like on top of Nelson's Column, abseiling down a cliff, hanging underneath a
balloon, potholing, etc?
That's right, he used to think nothing of shinning half way up a mountain
for a shot. In an age before mobile 'phones he used a number of ingenious
ways to get messages back to base. On one occasion he wrapped a message and
a pound note around a stone and lobbed it out of a train window as he was
heading South from Scotland. The message got through perhaps because it was
addressed to "The BBC London, vital message"; it was that he would be late
in the next morning !
The spelling IS Perou (although my spell checker disagrees), I'd forgotten
that.
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Robert Philpot