[…] I? Our first sound on film was from the old Fox company - not 20th Century Fox, the old original […]
[…] London to work for the GPO, was the exception ( Fox 2013: 587). After the war, less work meant fewer […]
[…] first? Reg Sutton: Movietone? Yes. Roy Fowler: Yes, owned by Fox. Reg Sutton: Owned, half owned by 20th Century Fox, […]
[…]andy shop. And I had customers like Frank Sinatra and all these people, it was all very exciting. And then finally I got a job with Twentieth Century Fox, through contacts. I'd met, through introduction, Rene - I think it was Rene Wilson - an editor from England years ago, was living in America, and[…]
[…]harge of this section. In this quiet country, gentlemen, whenever we've shorted anything, we used to go down to Camberley, where he had hedgehogs and foxes and things like that. All day, gentlemen, they were to the golden child and crockery. And then years later, it comes out that he's head of EMI s[…]
[…]ard and very nice experience. The Guinea Pig wasalright. Then we come to Britannia Mews. Britannia Mews was an Americanfilm made by Twentieth Century Fox, directed by Jean Negulesco. And thiswas a very hair raising experience in several ways, psychologically andphysically. It was my first experience[…]
[…] who the programme controller was, w hether it was Paul Fox or Michael Peacock. I think it was , of […]
[…]p; 22:03 Electric? Well, that's interesting, because it wasn't bought up by Western Electric. It wasn't, no, no, it was still. It was Fox's but you see, Fox started out with a sound on film, which wasn't too good. They had a method of flashing lamp. Tim Aymes 22:26&nb[…]
[…]eaking personally, I left the BBC a long, long time ago and largely because, the people in command changed and I really lost faith. I mean Paul Fox left BBC1 at that time, David Attenborough was 2 and he left that and so on and round about that time, co-incidentally -and I’d worked with Granad[…]
[…]t it, Bob, we didn't have it for long, because sound on film was coming in. Oh I never mentioned that did I? Our first sound on film was from the old Fox company - not 20th Century Fox, the old original Fox Company.Bob Allen: Yes, William Fox.MA: There was a film called 'Speakeasy', and we, as proje[…]