[…]handsome young man in naval uniform with a ball of the earth, with his foot on the ball, the world at your feet, and I fell for him. I applied to the Marconi Company and they took me on as a boy to learn wireless. I got my first class certificate after three months hard study. Most people took six m[…]
[…]ly I was just learning as I went on. I learnt very fast I might add. I remember on one occasion when we were using Visatone equipment manufactured by Marconi to a design by a certain Captain Round whose visits to Shepperton to check the equipment never went beyond the bar. My job was to run up the s[…]
[…]others applied to go over. We were accepted and of course we went over before the studios opened. In those years we had two studios, A and B. One was Marconi and the other was Baird. We did a week in each studio. So we used to have to learn both systems of course. And I did all the jobs. I used to b[…]
[…]no. Sound recording techniques, we didn't use optical and there was only optical recording, we didn't use optical in the BBC. I did have a spell on a Marconi Stille recorder which was steel wire but otherwise we, our recordings consisted of quickcut discs.Roy Fowler: They tested out the Blattnerphon[…]
[…] the picture or whatever. And we were using Mark 3, Marconi image Autocons[?] on nearly all our programmes. The standard […]
[…] was Wanted . Here he w orked with Vistatone ( Marconi) sound equipment at Shepperton and worked with the producer […]
[…] in the BBC. I did have a spell on a Marconi Stille recorder which was steel wire but otherwise we, […]
