[…]Maureen O'Sullivan and I saw metropolis an early age and many years later I went back to Germany one time and we saw they had the orchestra in an old soundstage and they played the metropolis to this orchestra on the very soundstage that was still a very soundstage where some of it was shot in the e[…]
[…] at Ealing and I hadn’t seen it before I would take it along to stage 1 where the white piano was, hastily pick out the main points and make it sound reasonably like it should, and then when I came along to play it to you, you would be able to say whether you liked the tune or not. I developed[…]
[…] that, to go to the revitalised British Film Institute which Denis Forman had been appointed to and had taken over, and edit their magazine Sight And Sound, which he pretty well created. And of course it was those days which were very active and Denis Forman was a very important chap because it was […]
[…]ob gone of course but I had I had the fortunate thing of living next door to a cameraman called Jack Whitehead and Jack Whitehead got me a job in the sound department at Chip's Bush studios. Why were you so keen on major so keen on getting into the films. I haven't the faintest idea. Did you go to f[…]
[…]her version still for British schools. This explains the number of edits and explains whether there were some editions that were silent and some with sound. MT: By this time you were using sound then and could you also tell me, I know you wouldn’t have moviolas in the early days; would yo[…]
[…]paints with pictures.Denis Forman: I remember him that night, I remember that his head got lower and lower and loweruntil actually you thought he was sound asleep because his head was on the table but wasn't asleephe was still talking he was still telling jokes but you couldn't actually hear them, h[…]
[…] So that was turned down, Then a chap called Jimmy Verity who then turned up and you asked me about my education, this was it, Jimmy Verity, bought a sound van for £ 100 and he wanted my father to pay for this van, we were going to go round the countryside making films and he turned that down as wel[…]
[…] Coming back to you. You worked for Mo0yes and then but then after Moyes Where did you go?Ron Hill 10:19 After Moyes George was busy on a sound rig Yes. Now when he perfect he called me up shares in the same house he called me up CG Roy. He says the jobs waiting for you.Hush. Oh, yeah. H[…]
[…] Well I was there for - until Gaumont-British Picture Corporation was formed in 1930.Sidney Cole: And that was just when things were changing over to sound.Jack Rockett: That's right.Sidney Cole: Yes.Jack Rockett: Just remember that. Then I went across to - we amalgamated with PCT.Sidney Cole: I rem[…]
