Terence Gallacher's recollections of a career in film

03/10/2024

Terry would always live in our hearts. As a person one can’t find a better friend. I lived in London for a while and Terry helped in many ways, bought me friends car, advised me in buying a house o…

03/10/2024

A recent article by Andrew O’Hagan in the London Review of Books has caused quite a stir. Written in the aftermatch of the Jimmy Savile scandal, it exposes a culture of child abuse from past decade…

03/10/2024

Terence Michael Gallacher died on the 3rd October 2014, almost 69 years to the day he entered British Movietone News for the first time in 1945, he was eighty five.

24/12/2023

Terry's podcast on how he and many others didn't get a Christmas bonus 60 years ago in 1963.

“Cleopatra and the Christmas Bonus 1963” British Movietone News were owned by 20th Century Fox (along with the Daily Mail) and the ever growing budget of their film, Cleopatra – s…

01/10/2023

On this day in 1945 Terence Gallacher started at British Movietone News, this is the podcast he recorded in 2012:

“My first days at Movietone” I’m pleased to announce that we have started a series of podcasts entitled, “The Movietone Years”. They cover my time at Movietone from 1…

17/04/2023

Maybe one of the first wedding videos, Terry and Janet, in Melbourne, Australia in 1958. Terry and Janet met on the boat out to Australia in 1956.

Sometime in August of 1958, Janet and I decided to fix a wedding date. A church wedding had to be performed in the parish of the bride, but, at that time, Janet was living in the heart of Melbourn…

09/06/2022

An article on the career of Ron Collins, in the British Cinematographer.

News Hound ClapperBoard / Ron Collins News Hound ClapperBoard / Ron Collins Former Movietone news cameraman Ronald Ernest Collins was born on the 29th

09/06/2022

This is Terry's article on filming the Dutch Grand Prix, and the contribution of Ron Collins. Terry wrote:

"With his Novoflex, Ron could hold focus on the approaching car which would pass us at over 150 miles an hour. The resulting pictures were amazing, upholding Ron E Collins reputation for his skill in operating telephoto lenses. It made for a wonderful shot that I have never seen repeated elsewhere."

After the British Grand Prix, the next was the Dutch Grand Prix was at Zandfort near Haarlem. It took place on June 23rd 1968. I met up with local cameraman and local sports presenter, Piet van Str…

09/06/2022

Very sad to learn that Terry's friend and colleague Ron Collins has died.

Here is Terry's article on Ron's long career:

Ron E. Collins started his career in 1958 with Rank Screen Services. First he was an office boy, but later he trained as a model animation cameraman at Rank Studios in Hammersmith. The following y…

06/06/2022

Terence Gallacher's article on the deployment of Movietone cameramen to film the D-Day landings, on this day 78 years ago.

D-Day and the invasion of Europe, the Second Front, was expected at any time. 21st May 1944 – Gerald Sanger, Movietone’s Editor, was Orderly Officer at Battalion H.Q. of the Home Guard.…

04/06/2022

Terence Gallacher's article on filming the Epsom Derby over the years with British Movietone News.

As a young man at Movietonews, another of my Sports fixtures was the Epsom Derby. I was recruited each year to run the rushes from the start, across country to an assembly point behind the Grandst…

02/06/2022

Terence Gallacher's podcast with his recollections on British Movietone News' filming of the Coronation June 2nd 1953:

https://terencegallacher.wordpress.com/2012/11/30/podcast-the-movietone-years-episode-eleven/

“The Coronation 1953” This week’s podcast describes how Movietone filmed the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and the events after the great occasion, as well as Queen Elizabeth& #…