Some Things Don’t Change

In the words of Ronnie Noble, Universal News, and later BBC News, cameraman six decades ago:

“So I bought a new suit. Its funny how cameramen are such a scruffy set. They spend all their time at the biggest functions in the world, yet they manage to look like tramps. When there’s anything special on, we have to buy a new suit to go in! Who are these people who have more than one set of clothes in their wardrobe? Not newsreel cameramen! Its no use use wearing good clothes anyway – they don’t last five minutes. You clean your lenses with your tie, and lie down on the ground to take an angle shot; you tear your trousers as you climb through a fence. No, a cameraman is better off scruffy.”