James Bond film cameraman and director who masterminded action shots for Pierce Brosnan and Roger Moore
Arthur Wooster, who has died aged 91 after suffering from dementia, was hired by the director John Glen to bring scenes of daredevil action to the screen as second unit director on all the James Bond movies of the 1980s. This followed a career mostly spent shooting documentaries, including a groundbreaking 3D film of the Queen’s coronation.
Glen, a film editor on some early productions that Wooster worked on as a camera operator, knew the qualities that he could bring to supply thrills and spills. “He was prepared to fly in fast fighter aircraft, ski, mountain climb, and he was a terrific underwater cameraman,” said Glen.
Arthur Wooster, who has died aged 91 after suffering from dementia, was hired by the director John Glen to bring scenes of daredevil action to the screen as second unit director on all the James Bond movies of the 1980s. This followed a career mostly spent shooting documentaries, including a groundbreaking 3D film of the Queen’s coronation.
Glen, a film editor on some early productions that Wooster worked on as a camera operator, knew the qualities that he could bring to supply thrills and spills. “He was prepared to fly in fast fighter aircraft, ski, mountain climb, and he was a terrific underwater cameraman,” said Glen.
- 9/23/2020
- by Anthony Hayward
- The Guardian - Film News
By Dave Worrall
Last night saw Cinema Retro attend the exclusive private viewing of Designing OO7 - Fifty Years of Bond Style at The Barbican in London. This unique exhibition showcasing the design, craft and style of a screen icon - James Bond - is superbly designed (by Ab Rogers, and guest-curated by fashion historian Bronwyn Cosgrave and Oscar-winning costume designer Lindy Hemming) . The exhibition is a must-see event for anyone with an interest in film, let alone James Bond. Produced in partnership with Eon Productions, ably assisted by the head of their archives, Meg Simmonds, the exhibition has amassed over 400 items that reflect the history of Bond over the last 50 years.
Following the press call in the day, the organizers invited people who have worked on the films over the years and also friends of Eon to a champagne reception and private view of the exhibition. And what a show it is!
Last night saw Cinema Retro attend the exclusive private viewing of Designing OO7 - Fifty Years of Bond Style at The Barbican in London. This unique exhibition showcasing the design, craft and style of a screen icon - James Bond - is superbly designed (by Ab Rogers, and guest-curated by fashion historian Bronwyn Cosgrave and Oscar-winning costume designer Lindy Hemming) . The exhibition is a must-see event for anyone with an interest in film, let alone James Bond. Produced in partnership with Eon Productions, ably assisted by the head of their archives, Meg Simmonds, the exhibition has amassed over 400 items that reflect the history of Bond over the last 50 years.
Following the press call in the day, the organizers invited people who have worked on the films over the years and also friends of Eon to a champagne reception and private view of the exhibition. And what a show it is!
- 7/6/2012
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
The current 3D week on Channel 4 – which starts with a 50-year-old film – may herald a new age of 3Dtv
Tonight you'll get to see the Queen as you've never seen her on television before – in 3D. Even for a non-royalist, that sounds quite fabulously futuristic. But the reality is rather different. Instead of ushering in a new (and much-discussed) age of 3Dtv, Channel 4 will actually be drawing on footage that is more than 50 years old.
It was 1953, and the golden era of stereoscopic movies when the young cameramen Bob Angell and Arthur Wooster captured the Queen's coronation in 3D. The first colour 3D feature film had been released a year earlier, and the most fashionable glasses came with red and cyan lenses. For Wooster's 80th birthday this year, his son, David Wooster, the executive producer of the C4 show, rediscovered the old clips.
3D holy grail
The colours have changed for 2009 – C4's glasses,...
Tonight you'll get to see the Queen as you've never seen her on television before – in 3D. Even for a non-royalist, that sounds quite fabulously futuristic. But the reality is rather different. Instead of ushering in a new (and much-discussed) age of 3Dtv, Channel 4 will actually be drawing on footage that is more than 50 years old.
It was 1953, and the golden era of stereoscopic movies when the young cameramen Bob Angell and Arthur Wooster captured the Queen's coronation in 3D. The first colour 3D feature film had been released a year earlier, and the most fashionable glasses came with red and cyan lenses. For Wooster's 80th birthday this year, his son, David Wooster, the executive producer of the C4 show, rediscovered the old clips.
3D holy grail
The colours have changed for 2009 – C4's glasses,...
- 11/16/2009
- by Vicky Frost, Stuart O'Connor
- The Guardian - Film News
A three-dimentional film of Britain's Queen Elizabeth being crowned is to be broadcast on TV. The footage - which was lost in an archive for over 55 years - has been described as the "closest thing to time travel" royal fans will ever experience. The queen is expected to be among millions of TV viewers to put on special 3-D glasses to watch the film next week. It was originally shot for a newsreel in 1953 and includes the coronation procession as well as clips of the monarch traveling by royal barge and joking on London's Tower Pier. It cost about £3,000 to make by two innovative young British cameramen Bob Angell and Arthur Wooster. It was never screened at...
- 11/12/2009
- Monsters and Critics
Footage from Britain's Queen Elizabeth's coronation is set to be shown in 3D for the first time. The images - which were filmed in 1953 in the lead up to her being crowned queen and will be aired on UK TV Channel 4 - will look like a regular television picture until viewers put on special glasses to see the footage come alive. Director Bob Angell and cameraman Arthur Wooster shot the colour newsreel as part of a package called Royal Review and to achieve the 3D effect, they used two cameras simultaneously at different angles before blending the footage together into a single picture. David Glover, Channel 4 specialist factual commissioning editor, said: "When I was told that there...
- 8/21/2009
- Monsters and Critics
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