[…] was a tremendous shock. Because I sort of adored him, he did all the sort of things that I enjoyed watching very much, with all sorts of gadgets and engineering and so forth, and I felt this was really a tremendous shock to me when he died. I started - as far as going into photography and filmmakin[…]
[…] up a two ounce tobacco tin in some red paper and asked another bloke to go and get me some static from somewhere. And he and he went on to the chief engineer. And he twigged the crack and passed it on to somebody else. And some bright work actually sent him up to the manager for this tin of s[…]
[…]w (1972)Side 300:00:00 – 00:10:40 [Tape starts mid-sentence and then restarts again at 00:00:18, again mid-sentence] Cameramen were initially seen as engineers there to fix cameras; DD had never been to school; DD started working at Sopwith’s in Kingston; DD tells the story of his first time in a fi[…]
[…]tence, or a people well meaning, but In my estimation, not very bright. And Fred Varley, formerly an ambience driver and then a rigor, became a sound engineer at London Weekend Television. I'm told, wasn't. Again, wasn't. Maybe it runs in the trade, I hope not, sound recordings. I'm pretty good. He […]
[…]iring in the roof, new tubing conduitv this that and the other where, if you work for a very, very big company, they usually have a house engineer. So as I say that I worked the Star Kinema in Fulham and then been a wartime projectionist. I had a special deferment from labour exchange, n[…]
[…]re buddies .SC: We'll explain about Blewitt later. What did you study at school.CC: General education, but I went to Arundell which is meant to be an engineering school, but that wasn't my line. Then I went to Canada for a bit and then I went to Oxford, New College, where I studied history.SC: Did y[…]
This copyright of this interview is vested in the BECTU History Project.Interviewer Bob AllenThis is an interview with Peter Handford, sound recordist, and it is taking place in his studio where most of the train records for which he is quite famous have been put together at his home. The date is th[…]
[…] and so were jolly heavy to cart around. It was a difficult camera to take on 10cation because the heart of the Technicolor process which is still an engineering miracle to me, it had two gates in the camera which were at right angles to each other and one was a single film and the other was a bi-pa[…]
[…] lot in the way of facilities. In fact, John was away at the time and I'd already authorised a twenty-four channel mixing table, and I went to John's engineer and said, "Does it have to be twenty-four, can we have twenty-five?" And he said, "Yeah, that's easy." And we had, you know, twenty-five chan[…]
BEHP transcript DisclaimerThis transcript has been produced automatically using Otter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for[…]
