[…] recognize now, when I moved away from from him, that thatUnknown Speaker 3:49 most camera mechanics were stuck in a time mold. As far as engineering was concerned, their engineering base was in the early 1900s when they moved over to film, they divorced themselves from general engineeri[…]
David Robson (projectionist, television engineer) 1921 - ? by admin — last modified Jul 27, 2008 02:41 PM Description to […]
[…]yright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. David Robson, one time cinema projectionist, television telecine operator, recording engineer, one of the pioneers of the BECTU History Project. Interviewer Alan Lawson. Recorded on 25/3/98, side 1.Alan Lawson: Well we'll start with th[…]
[…] 6:35 Did you brothers and join him with this activity? No.Speaker 1 6:39 My older brother Michael. He was he was a mechanical engineer. He didn't. When he left school, he did an apprenticeship in Bristol with a very famous firm of retinal Dolman and Rogers, who are precision […]
[…]hen we all worked together with about another 18 Johns years ago. But John started life in broadcasting with the BBC in radio in programme engineering, eventually became a studio manager and eventually a producer of radio, moved to the north to Manchester, did some television there, retur[…]
[…]onsidering the formation of this institution in any detail, I became aware of a profound class difference between what I was and what for example the engineers were who were a crucial part of the whole process of transmission. Probably 50% or even more of the people on the staff of the BBC in […]
[…]lived there until 1948, then moved to another council estate. But left school 1950. I had two years’ training with the GPO as a telephone engineer, then went into the RAF for two years’ national service, 1952 – 54, and when I came out I went back to the GPO until 1957 when I joined the B[…]
[…]p; And I went to the Burgh polytechnic and started a course there which, five years later, landed me with a Higher National Certificate in Electrical Engineering with Distinction in Electro-Technology. So, you know, things were shaping. And at that moment a very curious thing happened.&n[…]
[…]y ambition to get a job in the BBC. The reason being that next door but one to us in Acton lived a relation called Harold Kirk who was chief research engineer in the BBC. And he and Dr Alexander invented the ribbon microphone, the BBC ribbon microphone, and as a small boy I used to play in his loft […]
[…] lived a relation called Harold Kirk who was chief research engineer in the BBC. And he and Dr Alexander invented […]
