Bert Ford

Bert Ford was a studio cameraman who worked on many interwar productions, from Windsor Films’ ‘The Man and the Moment’ (1918), to George Clark Productions’ ‘The Persistent Lovers’ (1922), Atlantic Union’s ‘Owd Bob’ (1924), and Welsh-Pearson’s ‘Hunting Tower’ (1928). He was probably the cameraman named ‘Ford’ listed as a member of the large Daily Sketch Topical Budget teams that filmed both the wedding of the Duke of York and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, and the Football Association Cup Final, for No.609-2 of April 1923, and who also provided a portrait shot for No.611-1 of the Daily Sketch Topical Budget in May 1923. He later did freelance work for the Pathe Gazette, being credited in the camera teams that filmed ‘THE GRAND NATIONAL, 1927,' for No.1384 in March 1927, and ‘THE BOAT RACE’ for No.1386 in April 1927. He may also have been the ‘Ford’ credited in the camera team that filmed the Grand National for Pathe’s Super Sound Gazette No.34/25 in March 1934.

Sources

Kine Year Book 1921, p.591, ‘Bert Ford’: NFTVA, Luke McKernan’s biographical index of Topical Budget staff.