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[…] of 16 millimetre and particularly out of 16 millimetre synched sound and here you could see this wonderful stretch from […]

Maurice Askew ( sound recordist/dubbing mixer) 12/05/1916 - 11/12/1986 by admin — last modified Apr 18, 2008 10:21 AM Born […]

[…] o far were silent films. What was your reaction when sound came in? Maurice Elvey : Oh, I was greatly […]

[…] the size of the equipment, the film stocks, the cumbersome sound recording. Yes, there were some limitations in production. Did […]

[…]t way. Don’t try and sharpen the contrast if it’s not there in the original.10Don’t remove all the grain. Factors like that. Don’t try to perfect the soundtrack, it wasn’t meant to be a perfect soundtrack.” You know all these factors. So I think that the balance is somewhere – use digital tools, not[…]

[…]nnington.  1927 the Queen’s Hall, Dover.  And my father who was the by that time projectionist and film booker argued with his father about sound, because his father said it was a fad and his daughter would no longer be able to play the piano to accompany the films and therefore he would n[…]

[…]to develop, put it another way, the way that a new cinema was beginning to develop out of 16 millimetre and particularly out of 16 millimetre synched sound and here you could see this wonderful stretch from 16millimetre non-synch which produced the artists’ films associated say with the London Film […]

[…]very vain man who had an inflated sense of his own abilities. He did have a vision, which was to make the complete artistic expression with music and sound and performance and colour and you know the whole thing, which they did with Tales of Hoffman and The Red Shoes to some extent that was on, on t[…]

[…]fine timings, I think I Wrote a basic theme and I think they edited the film to that theme. Robert Hamer directed it. And he said we want a tune that Sounds like a Cross between an English folksong and a Haydn quartet. And so I did my best. The ironic thing was that little film was used as the short[…]

[…]tain today. He's got Michael Caine, [inaudible] I went backstage afterwards. What Peter did, he did about four and a half minutes of drums, [imitates sound of drums] sticks down, down to the floats, close the tabs behind him. He then went into about three minutes of impressions, which were breath-ta[…]