Side 1Ralph Bond  0:00  This is a tape recording with three ACTT members who have spent all or most of their working life in film laboratories. We have Bert Craik, Sam Williams, and Alf Cooper. And we're going to discuss the many, many changes that have taken place both in technical condit[…]
[…] way of giving me a lesson would be to say play me something my boy, he would put his feet up on the piano, and he had very big heavy socks, this I remember, and I'd play him something and he'd say play me something else. He also taught me so called counterpoint because I wished to compose andJS: Wa[…]
[…]ol. And a lot of funny, actually, because, because I was always, I always been a bad, bad sailor. At least it was a bad sailor in those days. And I remember the destroyers, of course, they have have a horrible motion, actually, as I can imagine. You know, they're long, slender pencil like things, ac[…]
[…]ork on his scripts and I was loaned out and never let go.BA: That was somewhere round 1933 .BE : Yes it was, it might have been a bit more, I can’t remember about years, you get a funny idea when you think back on years, you think you were there an awful long time and it really isn’t a long time, ju[…]
[…]ht, yes, yes. And he helped people. And, you know, we worked on an amateur film, yes, together. Yes, yeah, black and white, black and white. Yes, I remember that we using then Cee Lo Oh, yes, the Alfred, Alfred, yes. Was it reversal or no? Negative? Yeah, yes, they had both, but I worked with negati[…]
[…]time, I shall be 74 the place this auspicious event occurred was in a small terrace suburban house in Willesden. At the bottom of our garden, I can remember a quiet park now gone, and marvelous sunsets. I had a very happy childhood, blighted by the fact my mother was a mild, hard pichonry act. My fa[…]
[…]y really in Carshalton which was not very far away from where I lived, and while I was a couple of years older than he was at the time, I certainly remember a lot of the little incidents like picking up the bits of shrapnel.You didn’t know John at that time?No, no. Well, he’d have been too young for[…]
[…]ft and he said when you've got a year's experience and we'll give you a job, which was the usual thing and stillhappens I think. And my father then remembered that Maurice Elvey who was quite a friend of him, owed him a return kindness because my father had given him introductions when he went to Ti[…]
[…]r Hill but Osborne Mitchell I think was the studio manager.Alan Lawson  22:31That's right Ossie Mitchell.Dallas Bower  22:32You remember Ossie Mitchell? Sid Cole  22:33Yes, yes the Panther. Dallas Bower  22:35Was he called that?Sid Cole  22[…]
