[…]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[…]
[…] me called Derek Styles who was a sound engineer at Movietone. A big 6ft fellow and asked me for a […]
[…]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[…]
[…] and through his influence, he then was managing director of Movietone, through his influence I had my first job. It […]
[…] days of the newsreels: Leaving British Gaumont; moving to British Movietone News; British Movietone News closes down; Look at Life; […]
[…]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[…]
[…] to newsreel photography in 1929 at the newly formed British Movietone News, and during WWII he joined the Canadian Army […]
[…]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[…]
