[…]ut they were put in there for reproduction. I know. I didn't understand what a boy but I know, later years we had a lot of trouble with them. But the engineer always seem to be adjusting and narrower. The amplifiers and the city of Birmingham wouldn't allow the main amplifiers in the projection. We […]
[…] and so my first ambition was to become a sound engineer. So that was the intention. When I got to […]
[…]ring” on the play-in soundtrack sounded dissonantly rather than tunefully and the amplifying unit died. Ever tried getting the official Westrex Sound Engineer on Christmas Day? Somehow I got through and in the hour it took him to arrive I had to make the decision to offer refunds to those who would […]
[…]y died. So of course, as he married my mother, I didn't know my first the first wife at all. I have one photograph of her. He worked as an electrical engineer. I think during the war, he works as a fireman. Later on, he works electrical engineer and I think that's probably where I picked up most of […]
[…]nition Films was a thousand line recording system on 16mm film but the idea was (I've forgotten his name, which is terrible!) but it was to get chief engineers ready to start ITV, if they got the Government go-ahead to start ITV. And they did and Fred Becker became the Chief Engineer of STV, MacNama[…]
[…]d Chambers 29:16 Yes, I did. I had been doing some extra artists work and during the course of that I met a young lady who knew the chief engineer at Rediffusion Bill cheevers bill cheapest and he had been given the job by this American company smithkline and French of adding to the nucl[…]
[…]sp;you have got to be took over the sound department towards the extremely good engineers. Well it was an interesting period of time that we made quite a number[…]
Copyright is vested in the BECTU History Project19th December 1990, Maurice Carter, art director, interviewed by Roy FowlerSIDE ONE, TAPE ONERoy Fowler: When and where were you bornMaurice Carter: I was born in the London, in 1913, and I had the normal sort ofschooling, Gladstone, and I eventually w[…]
[…]thing. And then Johnny Rees, who went to South America. And then the real bastard, Hendrick Tyler, who went off to New Zealand. And I got a new chief engineer, Graham sage, and Graham sage, from then on, I got a really good team, one at a time. I got the cream, no question about it, one, they picked[…]
