[…]cal level as Sam did. I mean, we had to learn it by heart, everything, before we went in, we had to read the sheets and, you know, know exactly which camera. We had four cameras; he always wanted to know which camera we were on, and that sort of thing, you know.
It’s pretty relevant isn’t it for […]
[…]fe – actually, I’ve still got the Bowie knife, it’s like my memento from it – to Greg Pecks’ throat. But mind you he wasn’t here because that was the camera. I was teased like mad because Carl Foreman’s directing [laughter] and I was thinking I don’t really want to be here! But anyway, that was the […]
[…]c plates. And that's where I first met him.SPEAKER: M12And I went in to buy some lights.SPEAKER: M8We got talking about things and he said he's got a camera. And he brought it over one night and we started making films.SPEAKER: M1Can I experiments. I thought experiments. Yes short subjects maybe one[…]
[…]en: He was mixing, yes.Mickey Hickey: Oh he was the dubbing mixer. Peter wasn't, in those days, he used to do a little bit, but Peter changed over to camera. Because Peter changed over to camera and Peter and John Aldred then came back onto sound when the second front started. But Peter... Peter was[…]
[…]hing about. I remember forming opinions about Malcolm Muggeridge. It was very interesting seeing people off screen after you were just seeing them on camera. It was a different thing. Remember Hugo Nett.* It was a very useful little attachment that. Then I ha[…]
Interviewed by Peter Musgrave at the home of John Aldred in Marbella on the Costa Del Sol Copyright ACTT 1989SIDE 1, TAPE 1Peter Musgrave: Where and when were you born?John Aldred: I was born at Doncaster in 1921, son of dental surgeon but I had no ambition about following in my father's chosen prof[…]
1 John Aldred (sound recordist and dubbing mixer from 1936 -1986 ) BIOGRA PHY : John Ald red w orked […]
[…]dio with the water flying by really nice. So that was my firstreal interest and did lots of commercial and documentaries before I got involved in the features. Features areDerek Threadgall 14:52 also the first feature then that you've got involved with.Howard Lanning 14:55 We[…]
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[…]
