[…]. [DR makes a noise with his lips to imitate the needle skitting across the record grooves.] He was madly keen about sound. Anyway, he was now at the GPO Film Unit. And he was getting these reports and so one day he said to me, "How would you like to work with me?" Well by now he was satisfied. [lau[…]
[…]p; 1: Because they ran, in fact, the GPO Film Unit didn’t they? &nbs[…]
[…]atically connected with changeovers. Now he was when he wasn't far from the cinema. And we kept a timesheet of what time it is. Oh, it was right. The GPO came in and put suppressors on it seems that's their duty. That was their new. Yeah. But at this time, oh, I haven't finished but the load cells b[…]
[…]erned, because they were really sort of aces up there.Roy Fowler 34:39 Yes, they were stars, oh yes,Unknown Speaker 34:44 the GPO units andRoy Fowler 34:47 all the rest of it. They didn't. This was the height of their influence. It wasSpeaker 1 34:50 i[…]
[…] typing the film and running the commentary to it. There was no direct speech that didn’t come until later after the unit had been turned over to the GPO and then a studio acquired at Black Heath. Cavalcanti joined us at this point and gave us considerable help over the use of sound whic[…]
[…]ecause Iwas still a factory worker, you know, still working in tailoring and I worked through my something. So eventually Grierson took him on at the GPO film unit when they were down at Blackheath.Q But that was much later, wasn’t it?A That would be in about 1934 I suppose. I was working […]
[…]ther a new thing then. I was in that most of the time, in Kays in fact all of the time. And I did about a year in Kays. And then got a job at the new GPO Film Unit at Blackheath.Roy Fowler: Before we leave Kays, may I ask what your starting pay was?Norman Fisher: That's rather difficult to remember;[…]
[…] in Kays. And then got a job at the new GPO Film Unit at Blackheath. Roy Fowler: Before we leave Kays, may […]
