[…]Jonathan Balcon 24:17 I thought Sam Eckman took over.Roy Fowler 24:19 Well no Sam Eckman was managing director of MGM British generally, largely on the distribution side. Jonathan Balcon 24:26 Ah.Roy Fowler 24:27 Production I think, was inherited […]
[…]or us. Anyway, we managed after a fashion.Alan Lawson : Did you have booms at that time?Peter Birch : Oh yes, I had my own boom made at Welwyn by the general purpose chap there, an engineer, quite a nice boom really. Not so good as they are now of course.Alan Lawson : You had the problem with shadow[…]
[…]one.Sid Cole 0:35 Tell me, when have you got a introductory you've done that well. How would you like to say when you were born and where general family background? Well,Speaker 2 0:47 briefly, I was born in Notting Hill, 19 112 my parents were refugees from Russia, victims o[…]
[…]search local laboratories at Codex, then at Harrow Wilson, and got in. And was very lucky in that I got a very good grounding in sensitometry and the general photographic technology from them. And then, of course, everything was interrupted by the war, and as a serving soldier being in the TA I was […]
[…]job, didn’t they? The financial end but he was fantastic. And actually in those days he was one of the people who would go to the Annual General Meeting of the ACTT and get up and speak, because – I don’t know what your politics are – but we had a lot of left-wingers, out and out commun[…]
[…] junior maintenance engineer and I was sent to Newcastle-on-Tyne to the studio centre and I went there in 1936 when Sir John Reith was still director general and Noel Astbridge was chief engineer. And I went into digs up there and had a very happy time up there I should go back a little. which devel[…]
[…] I had my own boom made at Welwyn by the general purpose chap there, an engineer, quite a nice boom […]
[…] there in 1936 when Sir John Reith was still director general and Noel Astbridge was chief engineer. And I went […]
