[…]out the dull bits. [Laughter] I: Can we talk about your father, Peter? P: Yeah. Well, my father was with Marconi’s and then he went to… I: What was he in at Marconi’s? P: At Marconi’s, I think he was on the engineering si[…]
[…]d this huge experience, which of course they don't get these days, you do one job and one job only. But so here, this is me, rigging MCR 10 These are Marconi Mach two cameras, EMS 10 had an interesting history. It was assembled for the coronation. It was together with MCR nine, took they were identi[…]
[…]less, you know, but it's very early days, you know, spark sets and all that. But they had all this equipment, which we were trained on; duplicates of Marconi equipment that would be on a ship. So after a year, we sat for the Postmaster General's First Class Certificate of Proficiency in Radio, Wirel[…]
[…]rom Hurst into radio having set up my own amateur station at, at Upper Richmond Road in Putney. And when the time came for work I simply wrote to the Marconi Scientific Instrument Company, and said, "Could I be of any value to them?" And surprise, surprise I was immediately given a job!Alan Lawson&n[…]
[…]ould never have got on the air. Literally, despite the setbacks occasioned by our friends from Central Rediffusion services, the control rooms it was Marconi though the original Marconi mark one cameras originally with turrets, of course. I managed to squeeze a couple of booms in there all those a v[…]
[…]ould get five telephone calls and we would all jump in the air and go and have a cup of coffee. And in those 21 days Baird was in one studio and Marconi in the other. And somehow or another, certainly I always liked working with the Baird boys the best because they were Scots and English and th[…]
[…] briefly for the J.L. Baird television company, and then for Marconi before entering the film industry as a sound engineer […]
