[…]a very, very good job at being head of sound, but he was disabled, and it was amazing how he managed to do the work.Manny Yospa 39:32 Was John Abbott, yes.Albert Critoph 39:34 John Abbott, I'm not sure whichAbbott it was, but he was a sound mixer at Associated British s[…]
[…]e now, but there were three of us to start off with anyway. Eventually of course that all grew with lots of other people but we all know. People like John Wilcox came, Denys Coop was with us, Bunny Frankie[?] was with us. Oh there were lots and lots more on the camera side. But anyway that went on a[…]
[…]d sat down with him. My father was with me as well and I lived in Clydebank at the time and you either left school and you went in to shipbuilding at John Brown's, of course, or Yarrow's or Singer Sewing Machine, all heavy industry places and it got to the million-dollar question - "Well, Ronald, wh[…]
[…]ar with re-sits and I think it became apparent that it wasn't my thing, university, so my Dad knew a guy at the bank who knew of somebody at the BBC, John Byres, who was the Operations Manager at the BBC at the time so I went through and had a chat to John Byres and, fortunately, because I was inter[…]
[…]working in the steelworks? Was, it really boring mechanical work, and it's not bringing the best out of people? And I was very, very affected by him, John, something. MS: Is that the guy, you mean? PW: Yeah. And, and I thought, you know, he was quite a visionary in a way, because this is where we ar[…]
[…]ion and going elsewhere… GM: 29.23Yeah, so anyway. And they said to me, well, and the person that did take me under my wing then was Ernie Johnson. Yeah, right, yes. Ernie was a national officer at the time, and he was to calm me down, but he's saying, “You're right.” RL: Ernie Johns[…]
[…]n at the NFT three, four, five times a week, you know, I saw a lot of movies.SF: Saw a lot of stuff?Mm.SF: I’m sorry, did you get to know people like John Gillett and Leslie [Hardcastle] and...John Gillett, Tom Milne, Leslie. All those are the people are those... I’m just trying tothink of[…]
