[…]itting here now. Because after six months in that job, I got one of my bosses spotted that I was interested in sound, he got me an interview with the engineering recruitment department down in London, didn't pass muster the first time took a night class in physics over the next six months, passed mu[…]
[…]was. I was about 16, or nearly 16, when the war broke out. So last few years of my schooling before I then went on to what was then the North Hampton engineering college, which was in London, and is now part of the City University.Interviewer 2:42 What course Did you take there, th[…]
[…]I joined BBC Plymouth, 5PY, which was a local radio station BBC, of course, had to be in those days, 1932 ,32 and my father knew the chief engineer of the Plymouth station, and he said to him, What about giving my lad a chance? This is when I was 16. What my father was interested in was g[…]
[…] He later relocated to Coventry where he worked as an engineer at the Hillman Humber car factory. He continued work […]
[…]Butler Saw' machines for love nor money - even the British Photographic museum haven't got one. So I made one and it works perfectly because I was an engineer. I can make most machines because I served me time as an engineer and then, in my young days I went as a freelance engineer as well. So makin[…]
[…]difficult to … Well it was just very difficult to even document the whole of the output because the video tape was under the control of the recording engineers. And, the history of that being that two-inch tape was re-useable and it was very expensive in comparative terms and there was a great[…]
[…]r thought I would be better in a trade than in clerical work. So I think was a toss up whether I became apprentice to cabinet making or cinematograph engineering. You know, so. But anyway, it was cinematograph engineering.Roy Fowler 4:17 How many openings bill were there in cinematograph[…]
[…]e Percy Hindmarsh....Yes.He used to be the, the drive, well, what Technicolor called the drive maintenance but in the actual fact he was the printing engineer and all that kind of thing.Yes.Bill Norris was the, was the maintenance engineer for all the other stuff. In fact Bill Norris and I, that was[…]
[…]bout Wembley Studios which weren't very big studios. They were known as associated sound film industries and I wrote to a man called Wilson the chief engineer he was. And to my surprise and absolute delight I got a reply back saying what I'd like to come you might have something for me. Well I could[…]
