BECTU History ProjectInterview no: 281Interviewee: Alice (Queenie) Turner Interviewers: Alan Lawson and Syd Wilson No of tapes: OneDuration: 01:04:30COPYRIGHT: No use may be made of any interview material without the permission of the BECTU History Project (http://www.historyproject.org.uk/). Copyri[…]
 VOICE FILE NAME:   Paul Fox Side 1I   =   Interviewer - Norman SwallowR   =   Paul FoxM   =   Alan Lawsons.l.   =   sounds like I:&nb[…]
HISTORY PROJECT - ADOLPH SIMON​[TIME CODE IN ELAPSED TIME]​SIDE 1​Q:​This is the recording by the ACTT History Project on the 16th of October 1987, with Monsieur Adolph Simon, originally French, but now a long resident in England. Mr Simon, tell me when and where were you born? 00:00:20​AD[…]
[…] National, what sort of work did you do after that? Did you continue in newsreels, or do other things?Alf Tunwell: Well I... I applied for a job with Pathe Freres, in their laboratory. And I've got rather an interesting letter with me here, it's only a couple of lines, I'll just read it to you. It's[…]
[…]ctor, hand-turn, and we used to do the old er Keystone Cops and Charlie Chaplin films, which were quite good. Then I went on, graduated a bit, to the Pathescope Home Movie Projector, which my father bought me, and er...and it led from there that I was doing all the films for the... We used to hire f[…]
[…]h marvellous. So what was the first take-over you remember? What was the new firm called?
William Fielder: Er... [thinks]
Sidney Cole: Was that Pathe yet, or was it something in between?
William Fielder: Yes, Wardour Films stayed in the business until it amalgamated with Pathe.
Sidney Co[…]
[…] eventually, long since dead now. Ken Hanshaw, now retired. Those are the ones I can remember offhand. Alec Tozer, his uncle was Alec Tozer of Kodak, Pathe, Kodak. He set up his daughter, old uncle Alec Tozer, in a 16mm laboratory in Southampton Row underneath a barbers in a basement. She was a pass[…]
[…]nt, the AEO-light, which Movietone had acquired and it made sound newsreels possible. And when other newsreels started up such as Gaumont, Paramount, Pathe, they had much more clumsy equipment. Pathe had Visatone recording on a separate recorder instead of in the camera. The recorder of course was r[…]
