[…]ke a series of farces including Rookery Nook; five cameras were operated in booths whilst filming these farces; sound techniques – one mike on a long boom; FY discusses long working hours; FY talks about working with Jack Buchanan and Tom Walls; not a great deal of location work in those days; shoot[…]
[…]was a sort of magazine programme.Arthur Graham: During the war period and slightly towards the latter part of it some of the, er, this was one of the boom times for the British film industry, have you any recollections of any well-known films that you might have worked on or directors that you might[…]
[…]ony Havelock Allen and directed by Harold French called unpublished story, starred Valerie Hobson and Richard Green. The, the ACTT shop steward was a boom man the sound man called Percy Dayton. And he said, Well, you will have to join the union and I said, I've been longing to join the union. So I a[…]
[…]Could have been for quite a bit because it was based on the old optical leave as Richard was for the van. Yeah. Yeah. But on camera the mics were the boom. And.SPEAKER: M4Was there a loader. There was. Well for what we were going to do we didn't have camera because all we going to do was record soun[…]
[…]sp; but I wanted to go to South Africa. And I of course, at that time, if you wanted to make money, you'd debate your way to London. There was a boom in the building industry, and Rodney Giesler 1:18 This was the early 30s. Gus Walker 1:21 &[…]
[…]ound to talk to someone and didn't take the finger off the button, and said if he learned the bloody thing we could get on. You see. And a voice came booming back, well now if you're so clever why don't you come down here and do it.So I got up and went down onto the floor and the band had been waiti[…]
[…] able to speak to the control room ever, I could only be spoken to. But in those days you, you had a plug in cable.That’s right.You plugged in to the boom, you probably remember we did, and unplugged and ran and plugged in somewhere else and if you ran too far too fast you, the plug came out or your[…]
[…] plug in cable. That’s right. You plugged in to the boom, you probably remember we did, and unplugged and ran […]
[…]ch was quite true of even if Hitchcock, really, you know. Of, I mean, Brian Nutt would say things like, oh, I can hear something in this scene going, boom, boom, boom, boom, you know, well, why you didn't write boom, boom. You knew, knew what he meant. You know, it was quite a good way of kind of co[…]
