What is 'rostrum' and why does Ken Morse always do it?

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He's always listed on the credits of everything. How does he spread himself around?

dear sweet Google

ha!

A few years ago I went to a local history talk and we looked at some old photos. The speaker told us that Ken Morse invented the rostrum camera - I can't remmeber exactly what is though tbh, something along the lines of a photo of a photo or some other still image

I have spoken to the famous Ken Morse! It gave me quite a flutter.

Rostrum is used when you want a moving shot of a still photo - something like a cutting from a newspaper or a photo of somebody as a child. I used to have to send newspaper cuttings to Ken Morse and he would use his special rostrum camera to film a shot of it maybe panning across, or starting in on close up and pulling out. Otherwise you just have a still shot which is v boring on TV. Should imagine it's all done digitally now, so maybe Ken's got a new camera.

I read an answer to this once in one of those random questions things in newspapers, and it said 'the reason everyone goes to Ken Morse is because he's the best, and he's got a parrot.'

Ah Ken Morse .....

this should go some way to explaining

Has this thread not kicked off yet?
Fascinating stinky Monkey. I knew a mumsnetter would have met him!

Had no idea Ken Morse was so famous!
I've been to do some rostruming with Ken a couple of times, but this was a few years back now. He no longer had a parrot but he still chain smoked.
His studio was a PITA to get to so I chose a more centrally located camera man ... would be interested to know what he's done about the chain smoking since the law changed.

BTW - he's a very nice man and much quicker than a lot of other cameramen.

I've worked with him too, years ago. Can't remember much about him though, but he is Mr Rostrum.

Same goes for Mykola Pawluk, who seems to edit loads of comedy shows.

PurlyQueen you read my mind. I'd been going to ask about him aswell, I guess it's a him?

I had always assumed Mykola Pawluk was a she until I googled him last night .

I always thought Ken Morse was a pseudonym for when they couldn't use someone's real name...

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apparently mykola is a bit of an arse, i was disappointed to be told this by a person who worked iwth him. (i also thought it was a she)

LOL at this. DP is obsessed with Ken Morse. He shrieks 'KEN MORSE ON ROSTRUM' every time he sees it flash by. It was on something quite recently so KM is obviously still going strong.

God, I am genuinely disappointed to learn that Mykola Pawluk is actually a bloke. I always imagined 'she' would have a severe black bob and red lipstick...

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I have always wondered this. And now I know. Thanks to the combined miracle of MN and Google, my life is now complete. No, seriously, girls.

Scampadoodle, you're thinking of Alan Smithee. He is the name used when a Director decides to no longer be associated with the film anymore (usually because it's dire!)