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[…] as a numbering boy, they were making a Gracie Fields picture with Basil Dean, I think it was called Sing […]

[…]meras on it, two different sized pictures on the camera, you know, two different angles, so there was all that sort of hardware as far as the cameras moving about, and also we've got the Fisher Boom. We had to get the Fisher Boom out, we had the boom operator, not a particularly experienced boom ope[…]

[…]he prop van when we were doing locations and things in the studio and I used to do his job and my own really at the same time and that was the silent pictures, right?  I mean I got on well with old Harry Lachman because he used to ask for some really astounding things.  Like we were down a[…]

[…] all that sort of hardware as far as the cameras moving about, and also we've got the Fisher Boom. We […]

[…] Lawson : What about microphones? Gordon McCallum : We used moving coil microphones at that time. They were Western Electric […]

[…]e of God' and laying down the law a little bit which, of course, died out very quickly.Alan Lawson : What about microphones?Gordon McCallum : We used moving coil microphones at that time. They were Western Electric 618's I think.Alan Lawson : They were rather big, weren't they?Gordon McCallum : They[…]

[…]the next two months cutting off the Japanese retreat. We were landing from the sea cutting the Japanese retreat line because by that time they were removing themselves in North Burma and heading for Rangoon as fast as they could go and we were deputed to go in and cut their escape line which was whi[…]

[…]on and a man came out and standing there, says, ‘What d'you want? What are you looking at?’ I said, ‘I was looking at your billboard, sir, to see the pictures you're running.’ Because they used to have a billboard in those days, and I'm talking about 1912, with their two Westerns, French comic, Ital[…]

[…] was king amongst all my film pals, I'd got a picture with a title on it, you know. And I […]

[…]ple come down from universities and things like that and I would be called in to translate. I mean I will say I went on one location for Gainsborough pictures and as soon as the producer - it was in France and he realised that I could speak a bit of French, he roped me in as an interpreter, and he p[…]