Frederick Bentham

[…] I wanted to do and that was the bigger of the two studios, but Riverside two had to have an electronic control man called McLean who was head of PVC engineering at the time. I got on and ahead because Bishop was really in. And he got this idea into his head because he's seen it in America. And we d[…]

Rodney Giesler

[…]ard: So you distilled the essence very successfully there.Rodney Giesler: I could see the logic. I understood the machine. Donald and I looked at the engineering drawings and the manuals and we saw how it worked, and the essential points to teach. You see, these Coal Board films were very functional[…]

Charles W. Smith

[…] see them appearing on the big screen inside, which, again, was quite a novelty.Now, Raymond Spottiswoode, together with his brother Nigel—who was an engineer, and a very skilled engineer, but not a film technician—together they worked out the technical requirements for making satisfactory 3-D image[…]

Jimmy Wright

BEHP transcript DisclaimerThis transcript has been produced automatically using Speechmatics.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of the content of this[…]

Jim Gorrie

[…]eaving I happen to leave the projector to go see if the film was being packed away in the transit cases and who should come up with was the the chief engineer Savvy. And he saw me off the machine and threatened me so that I could get you the sack for that you can't I said I'm leaving. He said, Well,[…]

Gordon McCallum

[…] before the war, briefly, and in '39, I suppose. We made 'Contraband' I think it was, with Mickey. And so...Alan Lawson : Did you know him as a sound engineer, or a still man?Gordon McCallum : No, I knew he'd been a still man. I didn't know he'd been a sound engineer.Alan Lawson : Well I was told he[…]

Peter Birch

Peter Birch [A.F. Birch] (sound engineer) 10/10/1900 - ? by admin — last modified Jul 27, 2008 02:02 PM BIOGRAPHY: […]

John Aldred

[…] PHY : John Ald red w orked as a sound engineer , sound recordist and dubbing mixer in the film […]
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