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[…]
[…]gestion, when I was just sixteen that he wanted to go into the film industry, and did, and I thought, "What a damn good idea!" Because if I went into sound, I would be following my inclinations and, of course, I had been quite an enthusiastic schoolboy actor and things like that. I was interested in[…]
Dave Robson 0:00 racter The subject is Richard Marden, documentary and Feature Film Editor. He has also worked in sound department interviewed by John Legard, the date is 17 to January 1996. This is side one, and it's file number 361.Alan Legard 0:29 Dick. Now, perhaps you co[…]
[…] interesting experience my efforts at acting ... John P. Hamilton 6:36 Were you purely a performe or did you indulge in in sound? Obviously we're moving towards your hobbies as a child, did they have any bearing on you're finishing up in the BBC and in broadcast[…]
[…]fat: This presumably made you notice what one would have to call the deficiencies at home, the lack of discussion, the flow of ideas and so on school sounds a rather better place to be from your point of view. Did you …Philip Donnellan: Well yes that's it, it sounds an awful thing to say but o[…]
[…]went out there to see him. Now, most interesting, because D P Field was the Chief Maintenance Engineer and a Mr Arry Overtown who was the Chief Sound and D P Field had a fair number of staff which were all ETU, all except the man who was looking after what is called - which I will describe in […]
[…]no way that I could establish that I have been in charge of a number of people and that had done this, that and the other works, been responsible for sounds transfer. I may have worked hard, which I did. But it didn't fit their pre ordained framework of what qualified engineer was supposed to have d[…]
[…]e of Germany and all the other political side and so on. So we were then taken back to Germany. I couldn't speak a word of German, only English. This sounds crazy. We were trying to put me in a school, and the teacher, the headmaster, said I needed at least private less for six months or more, stude[…]
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[…] changing from one projector to the other, the film, on average, would have five or six reels, and you had to synchronize the movement between of the sound and the picture, between one projector and the other. And that was no. Certified at the end of the film, about 12 feet from the end of the film,[…]
