[…]what, what did you join us? And what was your interview for? Ian Rutter 2:41 I joined as a technical assistant, as a basic engineer, and then, of course, Evesham was up and running in those days, and we were sent to Evesham and had a wonderful, thorough engineering trainin[…]
[…] work it out, even though they had an amplifier. You see, they hadn't worked out. And we had in the labs. You see, we've been developing transmission engineering, electrical transmission engineering, and it was, it was so easy for the boys in the labs to go ahead and develop something, whether it wa[…]
Alan Lawson 0:05 The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project. Michael Colomb, BBC TV sound engineer, dubbing mixer and director of better sound of Endell Street interview. Alan Lawson, recorded on the 12th of June 1995. side one you know, first and foremost, wh[…]
[…]'s. I remember him very clearly. I don't think I'll expound this at this moment. Another personality connected with sound, we had a chief maintenance engineer called D.P. Field and he was really a little bit eccentric and very good at his job and loyal to his staff. But he used to put the fear of go[…]
[…]es. Hmm,Speaker 3 6:03 I'd been there a year, and John Shearman turned up.Unknown Speaker 6:13 His father was the chief motor engineer for the enemy's railway. And there was my uncle who was assistant secretary, and there was only one job for us, so I took the risk of telling[…]
[…]his chap had taught me, therefore I 'm extremely grateful. At the age of about fourteen I went to Oundle, largely because my parents thought I was an engineering type, I was always doing things with my hands. This was a misnomer on their part, in fact it was a science school, although they did engin[…]
[…]in film making, Transatlantic, and he had been moved across totelevision and there was me and then shortly after that there was Reg Hammans the Chief Engineerand from then on one was recruiting pretty quickly. I didn't actually get clear of all mycommitments at the Film Institute until March/April 1[…]
[…]liar sort of person, and Grierson said to me what did you think of them, and Grierson also said, he was giving pen pictures, Arthur Elton's really an engineer but he's a young man with a future and he said the next chap coming in is Basil Wright and he's really a poet. And there was Arthur looking a[…]
