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[…] temporarily...you can hear this murmur can't you? You listen...." " Boom boom boom... boom boom boom boom... boom boom boom...." […]

[…] by Gregory Ratoff and the sound absolutely dreadful and they want someone out there in a hurry. So they decided to send me with Bill Cook who was my boom operator at Crown Film Unit and had moved with me to MGM.So we went out to Rome at very, very short notice. I did not even have a passport. There[…]

[…]and I would be involved backstage there. And in that, in that group were a couple of people in the sound department. One was Ken Rawkins, who was the boom operator in theatre five, the ADR effects theatre at Pinewood. And another was Arthur Smith. Both of them lived in my road and Arthur Smith was, […]

[…]formance so we had to struggle in big stages with tiny sets with four walls. Now that was new. I mean the poor old sound man used to have to poke his boom over the top and get in as best he could. We didn't have the sort of mikes in those days. And also Rene Clement? would go into London and shoot w[…]

[…] programme with a £500 budget, with film cameras available, working at Lime Grove, at a time when television was, you know, becoming accepted and was booming.  And the people, the company at Lime Grove was terrific, I mean, everybody was available at Lime Grove in those days.I:   &nbs[…]

[…]ics, and of course not interfering with the camera man's work, such as casting the most dreadful shadows everywhere. Alan Lawson  12:48Booms hadn't come in? Dallas Bower  12:50Oh booms, there was no such thing as a boom in those days at all.  It was quite cons[…]

[…]r. The thing would come over – and I wasn’t bad at sports, but I’d miss it or, you know – and “Ha, you’re no good at anything!” And when I was on the boom – the boom was quite something because the mic weighed 8 pounds –[10mins] LH: How old were you at this time?WR: Seventeen; and when you wound the[…]

[…] to do the lighting; there were always difficulties with the boom. In those days, the equipment was nothing like as […]

[…]idn't have a union in those days as such. AndUnknown Speaker  13:06  then we heard mate like Percy Dayton, yes. And Percy Dayton, who was a boom, boom man, that's right.Unknown Speaker  13:16  And John Dennis.Unknown Speaker  13:18  John Dennis,Unknown Speaker  13:[…]

[…]colors. Have seen that interesting picture to work on there. And anyway, that was followed once again. Now Joe Losey, once again, came back with with boom. Now, Joe had asked me to do one or two things before that, which I wasn't able to do because, you know, Sunday contract with Fox. And anyway, ca[…]