[…] I mean television has always been badly served by the electronic industry in my view, we have always been well […]
[…]rold King at National?WR: Yes. He went from National to-LH: [interrupts] ABPC.WR: ABPC. I felt that I knew more about it than they did. Not about the electronics, but then they didn’t know about that anyway, but about recording sound and all the rest of it and one day I was nasty I suppose, they had[…]
[…] present editing machinery today, unbelievable! Roy Fowler: Well it's mostly electronic now. Vernon Sewell: Unbelievable mass of stuff, and the […]
[…] that I got an interest in technology in general. So when I went through to Glasgow to go to Strathclyde University after I had finished school to do electronic engineering and I went to do that course, not because initially I knew what I wanted to do but because I felt that that was the general fie[…]
[…]y took the art through largely through my father's influence, and put me into the development laboratory, where I supposed to be developing a bits of electronic equipment, which, again, spectacularly spectacular failure in a way I was capable of producing great Heath Robinson like apparatus says, No[…]
[…]o complication, no difficulty. But now! Good Heavens! You look at the present editing machinery today, unbelievable!Roy Fowler: Well it's mostly electronic now.Vernon Sewell: Unbelievable mass of stuff, and the sound is not as good as it was. The sound is not as good as it was with origina[…]
[…]Alan Lawson 0:03 The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Tony Bridgewater, senior BBC Television engineer, pioneer television engineer. Interviewer, Norman Swallow, and Alan Lawson recorded on the 28th of June 1990. Side one Norman Swallow&nb[…]
[…]o there were a number of projects around that that I was involved with. And, with my amateur radio background, I wasn’t afraid of anything to do with electronics, and sound, I kind of took to that quite naturally.CR: That’s really quite interesting. And sounds like a difficult job. One of things tha[…]