[…]uperb. So we were doing this thing from the Guild Hall for the new Lord Mayor and a man came up to me called Derek Styles who was a sound engineer at Movietone. A big 6ft fellow and asked me for a feed because we used to have a trap valve amplifier and we used to give anyone who wanted a feed, a fee[…]
[…]job?Norman Fisher: Well I had a rich aunt who knew Sir Gordon Craig, as a matter of fact, and through his influence, he then was managing director of Movietone, through his influence I had my first job. It was always considered that one started off in the labs. So I did a spell in the labs.Roy Fowle[…]
[…]ecently threw away the blazer, with the dates on it, which reminds me. Er, so in September '37, after a lot of contacting and whatnot, I got a job in Movietone as a trainee Newsreel man.Alan Lawson: Why Newsreel?David Prosser: Ah, well, it materialised in my thinking, even as a student and before, t[…]
[…]t wasn't until 1929 was it, that you finally went back and into the newsreel business where you've been ever since?Alf Tunwell: Yes, in 1929, British Movietone News started in this country. They were the first sound newsreel. And I fell into that job in rather a strange way. I was very friendly with[…]
[…]nd say, "Right. That's it," you know, "Blokes, I want a bit more space." But then at times um...you had a facility and you...[hesitates] one of them, Movietone or Gaumonts or Universal or Pathe didn't, I'd say, "Come on, come with me." So, you know, it was give and take a lot of the time. Or, I was […]
[…]th her. We went to Fiji and Tonga and New Zealand and Australia and everywhere that she went on that trip. Same as the flight of the White Heron that Movietone were talking about. I was doing the same thing actually only in a more comfortable way! I had dinner with the Queen on the ship and it was a[…]
