[…]he sound department won a Hollywood Oscar in 1939 for the sound recording on Goodbye Mr Chips which starred Robert Donat and I think it was the first British film to achieve this award.Peter Musgrave: Western Electric came from America. Where did Visatone come from?John Aldred: Visatone was manufact[…]
[…]omplain too much to me! I'm sure he disapproved most emphatically about it, but anyway they tolerated it. And so I was just sixteen when I started at British & Dominions at Elstree.Alan Lawson : How did you get the job?Gordon McCallum : By writing...that's all. My father did know somebody in the[…]
[…]sp;going into the marines, they were so smart, I didn't in fact. RF:  In Which we Serve was a landmark film in the British film industry  because suddenly this film came along whic h by         &[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 17 [Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: Unknown - draft analytical transcription by Sarah Easen, British Universities Film and Video CouncilInterview Date: 1987-09-16Interviewer: Roy FowlerInterviewee: Reg SuttonSound recordist: Taffy HainesTape 1, Side 1&n[…]
[…] invaluable historical overview of Britain’s film labs, go to http://www.brianpritchard.com/ British%20Labs.htm). His career spanned much of the twentieth century, from […]
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[…]s transcript has been produced automatically using Otter.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of the content of this interview.However, the BEHP wants t[…]
[…]t things and it was really good, having two cultures, particularly in terms of film. I always, always, loved French films more than English films, or British films. Much later on I was very fortunate in working with Truffaut, on Omnibus, about his life.But, to go back, we then moved to Gerards Cross[…]
British Entertainment History Project INTERVIEW NO.712 INTERVIEWEE – NEVILLE WORTMANINTERVIEWER – DARROL BLAKE Transcriber – Linda Hall-Shaw NEVILLE WORTMAN: I am Neville Wortman. I was born on the 28th March 1932 in London.DARROL BLAKE: And what sort of family […]
