[…] and they've got to learn with me the right way.Roy Fowler: You make your beginnings sound very quixotic, would you say they were typical of the British film industry in the early, middle 30s.Peter Tanner: I really don't know. I can only speak for myself.Roy Fowler: Have you ever read[…]
[…]s at every subject except arithmetic. I was in my own words a genius at arithmetic and I won five scholarships and eventually ... because I was not a British subject I couldn't get the scholarships. But I went in for one when I was fourteen and a half called the Trade Scholarship because my school l[…]
[…]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[…]
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