[…]was - we had very ancient equipment, it was Gaumont Chronos.Alan Lawson: Blimey!David Robson: They were originally designed for the silent days, with British Acoustic pull-through sound heads on the bottom. Lovely. That part of it was lovely. And a 25 amp - so low-intensity - arcs and the front shut[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]ts but I didn’t anyway.And then, and I think it must have been after he left that he rang up and I couldn’t gobecause he was offered a job at Gaumont British Instructional and he went to work in the cutting rooms and the library was a lot duller.Was that Mary Fields?That’s right, yes, and he was, th[…]
[…] Anyway, sorry. But just an interesting point, because I always recall was such a pleasure leaving Crown film in it and joining Edgar Anstey at British Transport films in Savile Row where everything was on safety stock, so didn't have to worry about yeah, that's always wonderful. lovelyl[…]
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[…]l, he came down. Billy Shenton also came down and did some extra scenes, or some extra camerawork. We also did some experimental sound recording with British Acoustics but it was a full width track and the picture camera had it's two back legs in a special kind of booth in the sound van and it was a[…]
[…] 03:01Well, from there, I went to Burndept, which was another radio manufacturer, manufacturing concern, one of the founder companies of the old British Broadcasting Company. And then in turn I went to 'Experimental Wireless', which was one of the first serious radio journals, by which I mean i[…]
[…] Jul 27, 2008 02:38 PM BIOGRAPHY: Gordon McCallum entered the British film industry in 1935 as a loading boy for […]
