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[…]sion would be made for that purpose another version would be made for instructional purposes in parts of Africa and perhaps another version still for British schools. This explains the number of edits and explains whether there were some editions that were silent and some with sound. MT: By thi[…]

[…]ly. In fact, if I may digress for a few seconds Gaumont Kalee which was a rank company part of rank film equipment was a company which had existed as British Acoustics for a great many years. And in my view was a very much underrated company. I believe they made first rate equipment. And if they had[…]

[…]OF CAROL OWENS INTERVIEW BEHP – REVISED BY COCarol Owens - IntervieweePaul Collard - Interviewer29th November 2017SPEAKER: M3 [Paul Collard]This is a British Entertainment History Project interview with Carol Owens at home in Ealing. The date is the twenty ninth of November 2017. The camera operator[…]

[…]laboratory, and this was how we got the things out in ahead of the picture.Y es.Otherwise it was impossible. But of course, it was, this was just the British offshoot. I mean in the, the American side had been doing it for an awful long time.Oh they had been going some years?Oh the American company […]

[…]of events, but I certainly at some point along the line there, I did some work for, I think it was called GB-I. What was that...Stephen Peet: Gaumont British Instructional.Philip Leacock: Yes. And they were very anti-union. Now that's the first thing I really remember, it was recruiting ACT members […]

[…]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[…]

[…]ears ago I think it was the Barbados Broadcasting Corporation BBC only thing it ran which I'm currently in commonwealth countries telerecording was a British television programs. They're still finding them returning them you know all the businesses that come along. The dust is being pushed out. So t[…]

The copyright of this interview lies with the British Entertainment History ProjectCornel  Lucas – Transcribed by Linda Marchant28/09/2005Copyright interview – BECTU history project - Interview number 543.Recording 15.05 (AP – anonymous person audience)Interviewer: Cornel we’re here at BECTU he[…]