[…] that we had looped, including Vanessa's performance. All the audio engineers there couldn't have been more complimentary, saying again and […]
[…] thing. Supervising and so on, going round with the regional engineer. And it was then at that time, as I […]
[…] 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 field that I w[…]
[…]her.Julia Cave: Fine, alright. I was born on the 01June 1937. In the Forest of Dean, in Gloucestershire. And my father was a mining engineer [pause] and 1:01 there was a colliery nearby my mother had been in early films. In fact, she played parts in early films and her name w[…]
[…]owned the Comedy Theatre as well.Roy Fowler: Yes.Vernon Sewell: And it was through him I got into the movies. I started as a sound recordingengineer.Roy Fowler: What - is there anything in between? I've got that you went to Nettlefold in 1929 as a camera assistant, what had you done..[…]
[…]en it went to Scotland. All those stories had to be done, and they had to be done on BBC lines, and the commentaries had to be checked with BBC engineers, and they were the most awful stories, I mean, boring and…proper news…proper stories, and political stories came out, and reporters were bei[…]
[…]nd I went back to sea in the Merchant Navy until 1925, after which time I was rather tired of the sea, so I applied to the BBC. They took me on as an engineer, and I was with them for three years. Then I got involved in a squabble, nothing to do with me at all, but I put my name down, signed my name[…]
[…]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[…]