Alan Lawson

[…]t day and he said as soon as you're got your regimental number you're to get in touch with me, which I did. I'd been drafted to the Royal Engineers Chemical Warfare. My base was to be Barton Stacy which isn't far from Handover, 1 think Long Parish was the actual address. I was doing basic training a[…]

Gerry Humphreys

[…]xed music there….that was a BBC mixer.  It was an amalgam of different things, and some basic tape machines of the day.  We had a couple of EMIs.  Later on he got two very good Ampex machines which had had won from the Ministry of Defence and they had converted these machines I should[…]

John L Hargreaves

[…]Now that didn't do anything. It was badly handled badly. Well, it wasn't sold at all, really. It was badly handled by the by the group at the time by EMI. AndJim Shields  22:03  and unfortunately,John Hargreaves  22:05  well, yes. Well, they're the differences. They're in the sam[…]

Joan Kemp-Welch

[…]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 […]

Lindsay Anderson

[…]nd ended up knowing a bit. And the good thing about Sequence was that it was a discovery for its editors.Also it wasn't in any way theoretical or academic, even though it did start at Oxford. So that for instance the French influence which came later to dominate English writing the about films and t[…]

Pat Jackson

[…]ne! That's old ground and we won't mill over it too long. But just to say one thing, I was absolutely lost, because I was surrounded by brilliant academic minds, they were all 'double firsts' from Oxbridge you see. And frankly, I could have been in Tibet, I didn't know what the heck they were talkin[…]

Michael (Mickey) Hickey

[…]ound. Well Harry Rayner[?] was approached by Mr Falkner, chief engineer for Stoll circuits, at The Coliseum. So he decided he wanted - we were in a premium now, because we knew something about it, and the thing was that we knew what to do, we knew how to make a programme up and we knew what to do if[…]

Graham Smart

[…] made, and the whole process and at that time, they were still processing their Kodachrome. So we saw the filming was much as you could in the  semi dark, the processes that went on and I found it fascinating. I thought, well, this is really something I would like to do when I leave school. Sch[…]
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