Side 1Alan Lawson.The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project. Gerry Humphries, sound recordist, dubbing mixer, managing director of Twickenham Film Studios. Interviewer Alan Lawson. Recorded on the 21st August 1995. Side one.Now, first Gerry when a[…]
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BEHP transcript DisclaimerThis transcript has been produced automatically using Speechmatics.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of the content of this[…]
Interviewed by Peter Musgrave at the home of John Aldred in Marbella on the Costa Del Sol Copyright ACTT 1989SIDE 1, TAPE 1Peter Musgrave: Where and when were you born?John Aldred: I was born at Doncaster in 1921, son of dental surgeon but I had no ambition about following in my father's chosen prof[…]
[…]u Brown. We all knew it I hope that Stu Brown could go into the cutting rooms and cut a negative. He could go into the printing room work out all the opticals and print that negative. He could grade it, grade the print and reprint it andhe’d view it and he’d set the machines right on the way. He was[…]
BILLY WILLIAMS SIDE 3, TAPE 2 Al: You were saying about John and Benny coming and helping out Billy Williams: […]
1 John Aldred (sound recordist and dubbing mixer from 1936 -1986 ) BIOGRA PHY : John Ald red w orked […]
[…]not sure that I can remember what it was, unless you took a a safety copy of it. And certainly the the editor of today has got it much easier. We did opticals we would have to wait a minimum of 24 hours, and much longer, I'll say get it and if it worked fine. And if not, then they never tried again.[…]
[…]rking.Did they have editing rooms and things like that?Oh yes, indeed, we had cutting rooms.Y es.Oh absolutely. And camera rooms we used to go out on opticals. Oh yes, we, in fact we used to work for other people too.Y es.But we had, we had optical rooms, animators. We had negative rooms, oh the who[…]
