[…]p of the processing machine.Alan Lawson: That was me! [Laughing]Cyril Pennington-Richards: Was it?Alan Lawson: Yes! Not Vintens it was Baird.Cyril Pennington-Richards: Yes well Vinten had one.Alan Lawson: No they didn't, no, no.Cyril Pennington-Richards: Didn't they?Ala[…]
[…] We were accepted and of course we went over before the studios opened. In those years we had two studios, A and B. One was Marconi and the other was Baird. We did a week in each studio. So we used to have to learn both systems of course. And I did all the jobs. I used to be on sound, on the floor.J[…]
[…]alvage 16 million developing business improvement in find a place big enough to rentAlan Lawson  36:33  good I can remember when I was with Baird television, old man Newman was making us a 17.5 camera today split split 35 I remember going to going down to him and him demonstrating to us ho[…]
[…]laiming a relative – I went into the RAF. And eventually they formed a film production unit with Derek Twist who was the commanding officer and Teddy Baird the adjutant and they promulgated a notice throughout the RAF asking for anyone, regardless of what department they were in, if they had any exp[…]
[…]t, in 1936?PS. That's right, and in fact a friend of mine who used to live in the Suburb, only a stone' s throw from here, worked before the war with Baird and... I can' t think of his name... But he was in at the very beginning, and he used to light the sets at Alexandra Palace.MS. I thought you ha[…]
[…] progress between the BBC, the Post Office, and John Logie Baird, over the feasibility of a public television service. After […]
[…] varied career (in 1934 he’d even been part of the Baird team at Alexandra Palace), Alan was ready for a […]
