[…]that was MGM’s first major production in this country wasn’t it?HARRY MILLER: Robert Donat. Yes that got, I think that got in the line for the Oscars and things but in those days dubbing editors never got Oscars, they all went to the sound department, you see? And I think they ga[…]
[…]d comes out the other end of a Turkish bath as Blimp. I can’t remember how they did it, and Perinal, this great French photographer who was our first Oscar winner I think – he was [Alexander] Korda’s cameraman, and it took two days. Well, I was used to 40 to 60 set-ups a day at Ealing. You daren’t l[…]
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[…]s Western Electric and it gave far superior results to the old Visatone which I had been used to before. In fact the sound department won a Hollywood Oscar in 1939 for the sound recording on Goodbye Mr Chips which starred Robert Donat and I think it was the first British film to achieve this award.P[…]
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