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[…] took place at Dunbar. And I've never met anybody else who took part in it. The Commanding Officer was actually I later found out the Headmaster of Rugby who was a muscular Christian called Martin Lloyd. I think he was probably Deputy Headmaster at that time I met him afterwards when I went to annou[…]
[…] part of his career he was a dubbing mixer at GB Instructional at Elstree and later for the BBC on a […]
[…]ldn't be quite sure about that. Gloria Sachs 9:01 What was the set up at Gaumont British? Margaret Thomson 9:05 MT: GBI Gloria Sachs 9:07 Who were the people there, do remember any of them? Margaret Thomson 9:08 Yes, I do indeed. Br[…]
[…]e. Dunge 45 Yeah, end of and lean best. Then started thinking about films again. So, like you moved from another figure. But so they commissioned the GBI Goon British instructional to make 616 millimeters sound Coda chrome films for 25,000 pounds, six, 660 millimeter sound Coda chrome films. The sub[…]
[…]ts of life films, you know, the development of plants, and so are the time lapse photography. Yes, time lapse photography, but I don't recall whether GBI had any stake themselves. They were of course preparing the studios and offices in Cleveland Street, just around the corner from the Middlesex Hos[…]
Charles Picken - My Cinema LifeCHAPTER ONE - MY FORMATIVE YEARSFrom my earliest childhood the magic of the Cinema had been firmly entrenched in my life. In those days television had not yet begun its inexorable march into the living rooms of the nation and the weekly visit, or in my fort[…]
[…]t AI had the huge works making turbine generators in Manchester Metropolitan Vickers, you had British Thompson who's invented early sound system at rugby and research labs in college and elsewhere. And Arthur, Elton decided to set up a film unit on the shell model, which will be run by film centre. […]
[…]ce boom really. Not so good as they are now of course.Alan Lawson : You had the problem with shadow, boom shadow?.Peter Birch : That was one of the bugbears yes, and the picture always took precedence. The sound had to take second choice.Alan Lawson : That wasn't the case when I was at the Bush. Whe[…]
[…]an with a microphone, giving the commentary of these films. They'd be about all sorts of subjects, but done as stories, acted. Not documentaries, not instructional films, but stories, in which the instruction became part of the story. Like, for instance, if I describe the first three that fell to me[…]