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[…] of sound he moved to England, working initially for Phonofilm/ British Talking Pictures. When they folded he bought their library […]

[…] short in 1940 when she was making a film about British evacuees for the National Film Board of Canada and […]

[…] a few more pictures at Ealing and the went to British International Pictures at Elstree which is still there and […]

[…]nbsp;T Anne Fleming. Transcript. This transcript was originally produced automatically using Speechmatics, and has been edited by David Sharp for the British Entertainment History Project.This transcript has been edited to remove hesitation and repetition where it was felt that the speech recognitio[…]

The copyright of this interview lies with the \british Entertainment History Project Peter Scott – My name is Peter Graham Scott. I was born in 1923, er…October the 27th. In East Sheen, which is near Putney, and near Richmond. My mother and father were living – they’d just got married; well the[…]

[…]knowledge, in about 1927-28 to Pathé and was a camera man for Pathé Gazette and then, whensound started, he joined Fox Movie Tele-news. Now, or then, British Movietone is. He went tothe States to learn the technique of sound coverage and came back, continued to be their ChiefCamera man until about 1[…]

[…]estern." So the Western Electric...Bob Allen: Can I just interrupt there, just to clear up a little point for people listening - this was the Gaumont-British, or British Acoustics, rather...Mickey Hickey: The British Acoustics, yeah.Bob Allen: The British Acoustics system, which actually was a Danis[…]

[…]evastopol, for which he was given seven years off of his twenty-five year army period.Sidney Cole: Because Sevastopol was the siege wasn't it, by the British and French armies?Charles Cooper: The siege of Sevastopol, the British and French, yes. There were three battles - Inkerman, Scoram and Sevast[…]

[…]which was to revise and reform Infantry tactics, it was set up at Barnard Castle.That was the sort of Mecca of the revivalist movement to try and get British Infantry tactics intosome shape and there were about eight of us and I was appointed Commandant of the Battle Schoolin Orkney in Shetland defe[…]