[…]ion until about 1958 – somewhere round there – 57 / 58. MDYou were growing up in the radio era then? BAIt was the radio. We had a big Marconi radio. It was quite a good one, but my father had to put it right on top of a bookcase, about six foot high, to stop me getting at it be[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] with it more with it than the Russians. But mainly they could say more what they thought they certainly had budgets available, and you saw a load of Marconi and British equipment. Obviously, the Foreign Office had something to do with it. And the though still there was a commissar here, who was won[…]
[…]ies, things like that. AL But you were based weren’t you at St Mary Abbots, wasn’t it. JG Very briefly, but the programme went out from the Marconi studio in Kensington somewhere. NS Yes, yes, just off the High Street. JG That’s right, that’s right. But we were cutting at Lime … […]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] in the BBC. I did have a spell on a Marconi Stille recorder which was steel wire but otherwise we, […]
[…]mething. And Bill stood, had the Grandville theater where they were doing a lot of work for the COI. And he had sort of upside down organs hanging on Marconi, four cameras, which produced the most awful results in 16 millimeter because they were working through the prism. The prisms didn't match. An[…]
[…]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[…]
