[…]u're confusing it with something that happened quite fortuitously, it wasn't microphones it was the fact that we had great difficulty in in recording music really well. And on one occasion quite by accident, I found it almost impossible to line-up the galvaniser head on the machine, on the actual re[…]
[…]s a cousin of Fay Compton and Compton Mackenzie.[1] On that side of the family, very much the theatrical sort of background. My mother’s side was the musical side. Her father and mother were both very musical and her brother – both her brothers played the piano, but her eldest brother, Peter, who’s […]
[…] ink so. We were operating this little cinema. It was me and a friend we had we had curtains surrounded by it by Christmas lights on a dimmer. We had music supplied with the whole thing was very professional and we had these movies from all this heat and the greatest thrill of the week for me was cy[…]
[…]nbsp;NS: What's this training at Broadcasting House or-DMW: 12:57 Training was a broadcast yes. The fun came was when you were playing in music on a 78 and something quite complex with a lot of movement. And you had to do an overlap changeover. And if you didn't get in sync is people tha[…]
[…]new [laughter]. I don’t think there’s much else to say about that – oh, one awful thing with this equipment, it was loud and it was a nightmare doing music, and they had a big flywheel, naturally- the film went round when it was actually recorded, and that had a magnetic control on it which never se[…]
[…]onto the famous pub….AL The Holly BushGH An the Holly Bush, the Bull and Bush is down the road, and the owner Faraday had turned what I think was the Music Room of the house as it had been built into a dubbing theatre. Basic, they had a little mixing console, I think it was an 8-way the mixing[…]
[…]on as an organist, and an accompanist, in a way that you have made famous, in the subsequent 65 years, tell me about your background, you came from a musical family didn’t you? Your father was connected with music.EB: that’s right Father was very musical, I was born in Islington. I went to the conve[…]
[…] go onto the stage on any account because of Uncle Charlie, they felt that was theatre. Of course, it wasn’t really theatre, it was variety and musical really. So, they were dead against it and they were hardworking lower middle-class people really and they sacrificed a lot to send me to[…]
[…]om his having a couple of glasses of sherry.All sound had to be recorded direct and since there was a cabaret sequence in 'The First Mrs Fraser', the music had to be recorded at the same time. So the editor, who was Thorold Dickinson, had to work out this elaborate plan with the director as to where[…]
[…]oliday. I don't know, I was not too keen. My other interests at the time,through my family, largely were amateur theatricals. My uncle and aunt ran a musical society North London Musical Society. And I used to get involved, there doing lighting, to begin with just doing a spotlights follow for follo[…]
