[…]stuff off the machines quicker. Mainly, it was unusual because it was a terrific urgency in getting news out that one really had to work to get newsreels out onto the screen as quick as possible. I can well remember that although we were using nitrate base, which was a terrifically highly dang[…]
[…] the sound unit right the way up.Roy Fowler 34:35 It's a single system, single Ah, right. I understand now I get Yes, and it was used for newsreel. Was that the purpose not for studio I see, right? Okay, difficult to edit. Yeah, did you ever see it in operation? No, no, you've no idea wh[…]
[…]BH: May 1937, wasn't it. And that was really an occasion. As Alf said, the first full length colour newsreel. AC: The first one was the Jubilee celebration down at Dufay because I worked on that. FL:&[…]
[…]ent from one side of the states, right across with a bell on front, driver, Gilbert and a cow catcher. And every town it pulled up the local news. We newsreel. Covered it. There was civic receptions every stop. It was all film on 35 mil silent, infallible stock. When the train came back, they brough[…]
[…]ch Bill Hornbeck did. On the Young Veteran for instance which was supposed to be about a young chap returning from Dunkirk, we go and see a whole lot newsreel material including that French series that they made before the Germans walked in, I can't remember what it was called, we had got the negati[…]
[…]ke we have to put up with these days. [18.11]The other mixers there at Denham at that time were John Cooke, Charlie Tasto, Terry Cotter who came from Newsreel, Red Law who later came on as dubbing mixer, Desmond Dew who went to Canada after the war. There was Dick Smith. There was an American called[…]
[…]tty several 100 and several 100, I guess.Roy Fowler 40:35 So the program probably consisted of what, a first feature, a second feature, a newsreel, coming attractions and a short subject, that's right, and maybe even a cartoon, yes, and an orbit interview, that's right, and maybe a merry[…]
[…]e the raid on Zeebrugge and things like that?Tilly Day: Ah they were...Sidney Cole: How was that done?Tilly Day: ...they were original newsreel.Sidney Cole: Were they, most of that? Ah, yeah...Tilly Day: Yeah.Sidney Cole: Yes.[Slight pause].Tilly Day: You see, you […]
