[…]nd always will be.SPEAKER: M2So some of them may have come in through other channels. I don't really know. I've never even asked them as a matter of fact. I suspect John Jim's probably gone in through his father James and Harmon has was the critic. So it was probably a friend of mix and James probab[…]
[…]r. And it was a great success and I won the competition and everybody said you can direct, you're very good. And I thought oh well I think I'd rather act. And I was acting away like crazy. I was president of the experimental theatre club eventually. I played with the Oxford University's Dramatic Soc[…]
[…]th the rexine covering all that sort of thing. Quite, quite extensive that way.Speaker 2 22:39 Yes, I seem to remember they had a bill of Act. Travel organizing,Speaker 1 22:47 a bloke named Burley, he wanted to all the rates of pay wasn't, wasn't anywhere compared, although […]
[…]p; Yes, just a bit earlier than that I had been round. Now I don’t how Elvin was the ? in the main at ACT. I remember a couple of chaps coming down to the studio and they went round talking to the Sound Camera Operators and the Boom Operators and[…]
[…] in 1937, there was going to be a new quota act. And this is when they changed p olicy, and they […]
1 John Aldred (sound recordist and dubbing mixer from 1936 -1986 ) BIOGRA PHY : John Ald red w orked […]
[…]re re-shooting and, and, and changing the script all the time you see. So that film was my first film.Who...?And that’s when I became a member of the ACT.Right. Tell us about being recruited into the ACT?Oh well Tony did that, Toni Rowe came to me, we had coffee and she said ‘Listen, they're startin[…]
[…]an Take It' was during the Battle of Britain, The Blitz. Not the Battle of Britain, The Blitz.Pat Jackson: The Blitz, the beginning of The Blitz. In fact...John Legard: After the Battle of Britain.Pat Jackson: ...I remember, the first real attack, we were at Bennett Park Road and it was the daylight[…]
Interviewed by Peter Musgrave at the home of John Aldred in Marbella on the Costa Del Sol Copyright ACTT 1989SIDE 1, TAPE 1Peter Musgrave: Where and when were you born?John Aldred: I was born at Doncaster in 1921, son of dental surgeon but I had no ambition about following in my father's chosen prof[…]
[…]h tapestry. In a sense we're onto film because you're now at Movietone. Where were Movietone based?Reg Sutton: In Soho Square. 22, right opposite the ACT. And of course I had to join the ACT which in those days wasn't any problem because they wanted members. After a time, I, a couple of years I beca[…]
