Ann Meo

[…]bsp; [00:00:00]Recording of Ann Meo, approximately twenty-fifth of May, 1996 in France, talking about her days in television. When I was in sound, in radio, I did a tremendous lot of editing and mucking about with tape and everything went round, either to left or to right on things that tu[…]

Larry Allen

[…]theatre, the old Coventry theatre, not the new Coventry theatre - they pulled the old one down, see. And when they pulled it down, I bought all their sound equipment. A bloke tipped me off, and it was cheap, almost a give-away. The microphones as well, and them microphones, goodness me, there must h[…]

Emmanuel (Manny) Yospa

[…]t in the finished product. And everybody knew their jobs and they knew how to work together in co-operation with the other. I mean the camera and the sound people, I'd keep telling 'em to keep their mikes out of the picture! [Chuckles] And the - and the soundman would tell us to keep our cameras qui[…]

Dennis Kimbley

[…]rcumstances is quite extraordinary. WellDennis Kimbley  35:30  taught me an awful lot he was, he was Charlie Parker's from from Kay's whose sound and he taught me anything I knew about sound. And Bill Goldstone taught me an awful lot about camera work and looking at the film and seeing wha[…]

Pamela Mann-Francis (nee Mann)

[…]he publicity department, over to 146 Piccadilly, and started with Norman Spencer and David Lean. I was secretary to the two of them, and that was pre Sound Barrier. And we worked on the script of The Sound Barrier and the casting of Sound Barrier at 146 Piccadilly.  And then pre-production[…]

Gerry Anstiss

[…] him, I got an introduction to Rock studios in 1943 44 this was And I was taken off for a two year apprenticeship at Rock studios. It was six months, sound six months, camera, six months editing six months in production. And at the end of the two years, I was asked what department I wanted to go ian[…]

Peter Stroud

[…]aid, "It might make a bit of a noise going through," you know. Anyway we ran it and the old Simplex projectors - in the base of the casting above the sound-head, you used to keep packed with wadding, to absorb the oil that leaks from the bearings, you know, so it's always a gooey mess there. And whe[…]

John Allen

[…] when I first went to Technicolor the builders John Moallem was still building the building. And I remember particularly the roof was not on over the sound theatre. Remember that particularly we used at the time the canteen which was used by the builders. It was just an old wooden hut with benches a[…]

Edward (Teddy) Carrick (Craig)

[…]suddenly thought, "Poor man" You know you can drop a spoon normally, and nobody can even hear you, but when you have got a bad stomach I mean a spoon sounds like plate glass. Crash. But he was so unnecessarily cantankerous, finding fault, telling you how to do your own job and when he said he wanted[…]
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