[…]d transformers in television sets, very expensive and very lethal. It was during the war they started to experiment with flyback EHT. Thorn had a big laboratory and one of the men there was killed. There was loss of life initially, while it was being experimented with, but it became very safe and ch[…]
E. M. Smedley Aston (production manager) 1912 - 2006by admin — last modified Jul 27, 2008 02:43BECTU History Project - Interview No. 407[Copyright BECTU] Interview Date: 1997-04-30Interviewer: Roy Fowler Interviewee: Fred TomlinRoy Fowler: So starting at the beginning, when and w[…]
[…] 'em cheaper - a computer." So I went to the GEC Electronics Company, only in the next street to where I lived. Got a job, got mixing in with all the laboratory blokes and between us we brought quite a lot of inventions out as there are today, see? Even the fax machine and the printout machine, ther[…]
[…], because nobody’s got to load the camera for you, so you’ve lost one of those. You need, of course, a lot less light. You don’t need the laboratory, so sadly, what you’re actually doing is cutting a huge amount of staff, which is money in another direction. So, on the one hand, yo[…]
Dave Robson 0:00 racter The subject is Richard Marden, documentary and Feature Film Editor. He has also worked in sound department interviewed by John Legard, the date is 17 to January 1996. This is side one, and it's file number 361.Alan Legard 0:29 Dick. Now, perhaps you co[…]
Rodney Giesler 0:09 This is an interview with Christopher miles, recorded for the BECTU oral history project by Rodney Giesler in Wiltshire on March the 31st 1995. Reel one,I mightask you when you were born, Christopher Miles 0:28 right, I was born 19, April 39, in Londo[…]
BEHP transcript DisclaimerThis transcript has been produced automatically using Speechmatics.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of the content of this[…]
David Watkin (DW)Director of PhotographyBECTU No. 320Interviewer: Alan Lawson (AL) and John Legard (JL)Date 03/03/19943 Tapes Side 100:00:00 – 00:12:00 Introductions; born in Margate, 1925; father was a solicitor for Southern Rail; lived in Margate until the war; as a child DW would got to the […]
[…];9:53 You know where I can't remember wherever the comedy shops and stalls in the back and went back In the back, back back where the where the laboratory was.Unknown Speaker 10:06 barter. Yeah. Because he went out into a narrow, narrow studio is tucked in that. Yeah. So try a big […]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 312[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: (Digital: 2012-09-24)Interview Dates: 1994-01-20 & 1994-03-24Interviewer: John LegardInterviewee: Rodney GieslerJohn Legard: Rodney, tell us who your parents were, and how you started, and how you got inter[…]
