[…]y you had to move to it?Joan Kemp-Welch: Yes, I think it was. I suppose it was.John P Hamilton Yes it was, yes, because they didn't get any Emitrons 'till '37.Roy Fowler: Well, around '36...Joan Kemp-Welch: I got a medal from the Wilkie Baird!Roy Fowler: ...they were on the […]
[…]oling? JG Oh my God, I went through a whole variety of schools, it was leading up to and during the war, was my school period and I was sort of semi-evacuated. I think I must have gone through something … before I finished school age … something like 10 or 11 schools, dotted round London, Strat[…]
[…]ng, there wasn't much that could be done about it. But what I did have was fairly frequent - well frequent - every six months I'd be called in by the emigration department for an interrogation, as far as that was concerned. So the work that was being done by the IWO was very interesting and of cours[…]
[…] rowed for Imperial College Boat Club at Henley and whatever, in '35 and '36, and I only recently threw away the blazer, with the dates on it, which reminds me. Er, so in September '37, after a lot of contacting and whatnot, I got a job in Movietone as a trainee Newsreel man.Alan Lawson: Why Newsree[…]
[…]p; But again, going back to your co-operation with Tony Lumpkin, were you in his early work at ABC or EMI as it was by then with the development of stereo optical, now known as the Dolby stereo.A No[…]
[…]an countries. [19.54]The dubbing theatre used to work literally night and day. It was not unusual to have to work all night on the night before the premiere of a film and finish at five or six in the morning on the last reel and that would then be shown that night in the West End. But there was no r[…]
[…] any work for cameras, and very little for lenses, and we were practically out of business. You know, when we could, I think I could have walked into EMI when I lived in haze and probably got months of good quality, well paid work. You know, if you'd got lathes, screw cutting, milling,Unknown Speake[…]
[…]ficers are elected.Betty Bachelor: Yes. He was there 22 years and retired. He was approached by Thames Television to help out as labour relations.And EMI took over and he was asked to resign. And that was the end. Then we met Sidney Bernstein and he asked us if we'd like a cottage in Glebeland[…]
