[…] few days earlier. I said, "Yeah, I think I'll like it here!" So he said, "Well, just remember, you make a buck for me, I'll make a buck for you!" It sounded good until you remembered there was one of him and God knows how many thousands of me, so it was an uneven trade! But I thought Roy did a real[…]
[…] master was a tremendous enthusiast. His name was Vernon J Todd, and I heard all these kids banging and blowing and scraping things. And I thought he sounded marvelous, so I went to Mr. Tod and said, Please, sir, I'd like to join the orchestra. And he said, Well, we're very short of brass players at[…]
[…]I think that's what...with so many films on at BIP, we couldn't have had much stage space, I can't remember exactly how much we had.John Legard: That sounds quite a healthy period in British filmmaking...Peggy Gick: It was very busy, yes.John Legard: ...in 1935 we're talking about, '34, '35?Peggy Gi[…]
[…]s may not be allowed.Mary Harvey Tape 1 Side A1Mary Harvey Tape 1 Side ANote from transcriber: There were a couple of slight issues, the unidentified sound recordist and the not great quality sound from either of the interviewees. You will notice that almost all the transcription queries are on that[…]
[…]tuff got amplifiers and mics, that sort of thing. And I set up stereo, I was very interested in stereo microphoning because of the fact that binaural sound allows you to locate the sound source much, much more accurately. And so I got this idea, which was really to use it on on patrol to tell where […]
[…] called Marie Burke. I don't remember a lot about it, except I was in the crowd as one of the sort of peasants in it.Rodney Giesler: One of the first sound films was it?Dicky Leeman: No, there'd been sound for some time on that.Rodney Giesler: And this was at BIP was it?Dicky Leeman: Yes. And then I[…]
[…]31st 1995. Reel one,I mightask you when you were born, Christopher Miles 0:28 right, I was born 19, April 39, in London town and the sound of bow bells. So not quite a Cockney, but can you tell me a bit about your family and how you came to be in the film industry?Right. My family c[…]
[…]'s no substitute. If you haven't made it acoustically right you won't equalise it right.Jim Shields: No. But then you get this sort of horrible, flat sound...Maurice Askew: That's right...Jim Shields: ...which is only part of the battle of post-synch to make it fit. It is so often when you have a pi[…]
