[…]o I've found with Maurice [Askew] that when you were post-synching and you could accept that it was a live - you were halfway there because it didn't sound flat and horrible. And with effects too, you say - well you didn't have to mention anything, I mean, he would give it it's maximum, you were hel[…]
[…]cial effects with that film? Speaker 1 11:22 I Well, yes, the special effects were the brainwave of Syd Mills, who was the sound man, and he had all sorts of thunder sheets that he would use. And also the legend is that he had a small circular railway track behind the scre[…]
[…]rucks and things. It was the beginning of learning to beg borrow and steal which one has had to do ever since really. Norman Swallow: This was a sound film John Schlesinger: No, it was a silent film to which we put music synchronised on 2 tur[…]
[…]I mean, what did it look like?Unknown Speaker 9:04 It's just a frame, no samples. Nothing.Sid Cole 9:07 Well, they hadn't got sound yet. AndUnknown Speaker 9:10 it had been an aircraft factorySid Cole 9:11 installed.Unknown Speaker 9:12 I'v[…]
[…]d gentleman, always wore a black trilby hat and an overcoat, regardless of what the weather conditions were. And had never realised you were shooting sound. So he used to wander around the set mouthing all the words all the time, because obviously when he did the silent films he used to speak the wo[…]
[…]e to be shown in this way with polarizing spectacles in neutral colors, which permitted films in full color, and were also going to have stereophonic sound, which was extremely novel in 1951, and, again, was the first time that stereophonic sound had ever been put before a public audience. And […]
[…]" So poor Cecil never really knew why he was there. Naturally, the Yank got the girl at the end, or something like that. Heh Heh!Arnold Schwartzman : Sounds like another film called 'Chumps at Oxford' [N.B. 'A Chump at Oxford'] with Laurel and Hardy.Charles Bennett : Or 'A Yank at Oxford'.Arnold Sch[…]
[…]dventure. It really was adventurous. Alan Lawson 24:08 And it was sorry. It wasn't...technical question. There was no sound because... Tony Bridgewater 24:14 We weren't broadcasting Alan Lawson 24:17 In Selfridges […]
