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Ace Cinematographer John Seale Says Scrappy, Low-Budget Origins Provided Lifelong Lessons: ‘Give Me 10 Minutes, I Can Sort That Out’
Speaking at IFFI, cinematographer John Seale speaks about angles, actors and always starting afresh.
“After a year in Sydney, I got into the Australian Broadcasting Commission, which is the government run television station, and started a seven-year apprenticeship because there were no film schools. “We had a core establishment of 26 cameramen, [used] for all aspects of TV coverage, from hard news, television documentaries on rural and agricultural problems, to arts and music. That learning and attitude to life, which we still maintain that to a degree, [means that] there’s an awful lot of Australians now working in America and through Asia and Europe.”
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