This copyright of this interview is vested in the BECTU History Project.Interviewer Bob AllenThis is an interview with Peter Handford, sound recordist, and it is taking place in his studio where most of the train records for which he is quite famous have been put together at his home. The date is th[…]
[…] smile all the time. And she had that horribly short bob bed blonde hair. I said, "No, no , put […]
[…]ain’t heard nothing yet” and this is a short filmmade before The Jazz Singer which wasn’t the first manifestation of thesefamous words, and Bob, it took him years to find a disc for the mute film hehad for On the Plantation and when he did find it, it was hanging on someone’swall[…]
[…]the I don't know which company it was, but it was, I think, an opera company. And they brought their own complete orchestra. They weren't needed. But Bob was needed, just for the triangle for one particular performance. And so he had to be there. And he had to count something like 515 bars. So of co[…]
[…]as it's not as tactile I don't feel like a craftsman anymore. I used to. I used to do a few tricks on film that were quite dangerous. I used to put a bob in a film on my thumb and rewind to the high speed onto the Steenbeck. You know, just to impress people. I mean, that was dangerous. I, you know, […]
[…]cuit held out and would not show advertsing - it was taboo, they didn't want to know and they wouldn't show it - but whilst Dickie and Ernie Peal and Bob Dean where at the Rank Organisation with Theatre Publicity they were negotiating - obviously quietly - with ABC because that contract was worth a […]
