[…]'s contribution to film sound I was very much involved because Dolby started taking an interest in about 1970-71 and all the initial work was done at Elstree Studio and the head of sound the late Tony Lumpkin and from Dolby a Technician named Allan was responsible for organising the entire thing. Ko[…]
[…]system. really.Roy Fowler: That was a problem with most of the early sound systems, wasn't it? A number of people have talked about that happening at Elstree, BIP, there was always a problem with blowing the galvanometer. Calvalcanti, also had a short fuse, was he over it very quickly? Was he a plea[…]
[…]48 what was the other film it happened onGordon Hales 15:49 It was Frankenstein Must be Destroyed right by Terence Fisher Hammer at Elstree yes a Hammer film by them?Interviewer 16:00 Gordon after the undersea picture, thenGordon Hales 16:05 then I put in fo[…]
[…]onable and so on. Then Sidney and I used to go off together to, for instance, The EdinburghFestival, we'd go off for two days together and go down to Elstree and spend the day watching afilm being made if one of his friends was making it and we got on to friendly terms. So when it wasclear that Inde[…]
[…]ted, yes, and it's wasted in I mean, look at the cost of a movie. I mean, this is the silly, the hypocrisy of it of Atkins, he stand up there say, oh Elstree, look at the and and George Lucas and the other fellow, we made these wonderful movies at elstre Look. They were applauded in every country in[…]
[…]p;22:56 Crimson Pirate that was Errol Flynn wasn't it? Was it ErrolFlynnAlf Cooper 23:02 on my quite likely did some shots at ElstreeAlan Lawson 23:24 we'el stop. now after Crimson priate it did did you can you remember any other films youUnknown Speaker 23:[…]
[…]e I went round all the studios.And that’s absolutely true, you’d never believe that in those days.I managed to stop them shooting at, at Pinewood, at Elstree and at Shepperton while I addressed them all.And we got...And we collected quite a lot of money, you know, they were very sympathetic when the[…]
[…]k Unsworth who was operating, he had got an offer to photograph a film, it was his first film as a cameraman, it was a mucisical of some sort over at Elstree. He left. Micky agreed he ought to go, 1st was a good opportunity and I took over from him as operator for not a big proportion of the film, j[…]
[…] sure he disapproved most emphatically about it, but anyway they tolerated it. And so I was just sixteen when I started at British & Dominions at Elstree.Alan Lawson : How did you get the job?Gordon McCallum : By writing...that's all. My father did know somebody in the industry, whom he'd played[…]
