[…] films for the Tyneside as long as he had an option on playing these releases. There was also the Royalty at Gosforth (which would close in the Video boom decimation and later be converted to a Residential Home for the elderly) and the Carlton in Tynemouth which likewise would fall victim to the sam[…]
Fred Tomlin ( boom operator) 1908 - ? by admin — last modified Jul 27, 2008 02:45 PM BIOGRAPHY: Fred Tomlin […]
[…]he ACD. You must not show your card. Actually, Linden Haynes, he actually got fired, because he was instrumental in recruiting. And he was one day as boom operator in those days. And one day, he was scraping down a boom, ready to repolish your door repainted. They came along, caught him and accused […]
[…]03-05-01Interview Date: 1990-11-29Interviewer: Bob AllenInterviewee: Fred TomlinTape 1, Side 1 Bob Allen: This is an interview with Fred Tomlin, boom operator, and the date is the 29th November 1990, so we'll roll from there. Well first of all I'll ask where were you born, Fred?Fred Tomlin: I w[…]
[…]that well at sea, because he was quite a strange character. He used to ride by tube, even company were had a laid on the rolls. Royce for him. Is it? Boom, like that. He just came on foot and was very, you know, unobtrusive person. I liked him very much. Had a great sort of biting sense of humor. Th[…]
[…]do I would have chosen all of the ones I did. And I wouldn't have chosen any of those that I didn't. Because I didn't like any of them. I didn't like boom. I didn't like Trotsky didn't like and I had already refused to do figures and landscape when Joe wasn't even going to direct it. I'd already ref[…]
[…]e connivance of Act, are bowing to the thing that if you want to save money, it's the same way as a sound man. Can you know you, you really do need a boom sprayer, and you need a blow to run out the cable, and you really do the maintenance, if you you know, on a big on a big feature. But of course, […]
[…]rning' to the chap, he never greeted me for about the first three or four days, and he had these awful British, um, I've forgotten what the....Bombay boomers I think they were called. They were shorts....Alan Lawson: [Over interviewee]. That's right, like [indecipherable] [Laughs].David Prosser: ...[…]
[…]They were an old Kentish family and they'd made their living out of being hop factors you see, all around Kent and Herefordshire, where it was a very booming industry - that doesn't exist any more. And so, sort of, prep schools - but then one was promptly shoved out to Switzerland with my parents. B[…]
[…] temporarily...you can hear this murmur can't you? You listen...." " Boom boom boom... boom boom boom boom... boom boom boom...." […]
