[…]uy, the guy that sacked me...Was smoking?Was, was actually gave me one of his own fags the night before.Yes.In the room that...Yes.And that, and, mm, British and, B&D got... [Pause] No.[OI] BIP you mean?BIP.[OI] Yes.No, I worked at BIP’s. B&D’s got burnt down.[OI] Yes.36And, mm, got burnt do[…]
[…] [???] four years, even well before sound. We used to pay a thousand quid for the rights, and then we used to, so many copies were going out [???] in British [???], in India, in all those country.00:32:38We were doing quite well [???] even paying a thousand quid for it. One year somebody paid a dir[…]
[…]d be an amateur theatricals and things like that, but nothing more.So how long did you stay at Wharton Hall?I stayed there until really sound came in British Acoustic andTimeline when roughlythat was 1929. I remember I sort of half joined the sound department of it with Stuart Rome. He came over and[…]
[…] with Samuelson through the ‘20s, but in 1929 he joined British Movietone News which was setting up the country’s first sound newsreel. […]
