Louise Willcox

[…]ing that. So being the hands and feet of the actors whilst they're walking around with their scripts. In between that I would do things like slapping radio mics on a pebble Miller one and any programmes that I think I was, I was there for the last two or three years of Palmetto at one.Unknown Speake[…]

Johnny (Johnny) Goodman

[…]'B' movies. So I started working as a third assistant and eventually I went up to second assistant. And then finally one day I went in to see the two producers, Bob Baker and Monty Berman, and I said, "Look, if I couldn't do the first assistant jobs better than some of the guys that you employ, well[…]

Joe Mendoza

[…] The only thing I remember about him was that gently rang me up with this opportunity to work a GPL formula. I was doing a course on training to be a radio operator for the merchant navy, getting ready to be in the war. This was January 1940. And are you right? Or am I okay? And so a very good frien[…]

John Aldred

[…]uld be highly delighted. Miniature lapel microphones appeared which could be concealed but they're not usually as good as having a proper microphone. Radio mikes are of course very popular but they cannot always be relied upon. So really these improvements fall into several areas.Peter Musgrave: Do […]

John Aldred

[…] they're not usually as good as having a proper microphone. Radio mikes are of course very popular but they cannot […]

Vivienne Collins

[…] think really.What about theatre and so on, I mean, because it’s all wartime so there wasn’t much was there, even the, one’s entertainment was mainly radio of course.We didn’t get to much. I can remember going to, I can remember taking a younger cousin of mine to one of the Ivor Novello things and I[…]

Alan Lawson

[…] moved over to television enterprises where they were making, they'd started to make English as a foreign language for sales overseas with English by radio and they changed the title to English by radio and television. I was I suppose in the film sense the BBC's producers, I lined the thing up, got […]
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