[…]time when I didn't.Roy Fowler: It was always there?Joan Kemp-Welch: Yes.Roy Fowler: Right. And the other thing I'd like to ask is, you sound, in a sense, rather precocious, for example, you were a matron at the age of sixteen, which must have been quite...Joan Kemp-Welch: Oh, I s[…]
[…]nto the newsreel business where you've been ever since?Alf Tunwell: Yes, in 1929, British Movietone News started in this country. They were the first sound newsreel. And I fell into that job in rather a strange way. I was very friendly with a man named Tommy Scales, who's a very well known man in th[…]
[…]t about 10 o'clock in the evening, you can imagine on my first job. And all the audience came out and the manager left and it was closed up and not a sound, not a sound. Suddenly a truck with Sound City Shepperton written on it appeared, RCA truck and out came people. Of course they started laying c[…]
[…] er...I heard that they wanted a Loading Boy at er Sound City...John Stafford Productions. So I rang up, and the […]
[…] as you know. They went over from optical to magnetic sound. I don't know if it was easy. I remember […]
[…] And the other thing I'd like to ask is, you sound, in a sense, rather precocious, for example, you were […]
[…] Movietone News started in this country. They were the first sound newsreel. And I fell into that job in rather […]
[…]tion of shot, close-up, medium close-up, whatever, a description of what was happening for those two feet, and the transcript for the matching bit of soundtrack, and you’d do it all again for the next shot and for the whole of what I think was a five- or six-reel film. It took months and this […]
[…]e cinema, not really knowing anything about it. And as I grew up, my father had left the film business as such, and joined the BBC. And although that sounded quite a nice job, I wasn't overly interested in it. And I think like most, maybe not like most. But anyway, I felt I needed to rebel against m[…]
[…] I should...I did two films there and er...then I had to er...filming was...coming to the close and er...I heard that they wanted a Loading Boy at er Sound City...John Stafford Productions. So I rang up, and the Cameraman's name was Jimmy Wilson. So, I rang Mr Wilson up and I said...so he said, "Yes[…]
