[…]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[…]
[…] 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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