[…]arch 1925 so I’ve worked out that I was there as well as I was born in December 1925, only not terribly visible.Q: (Laughs) Um, then what, um did the sound films presumably rather kill Worton Hall didn’t they?SAMUELSON: Yes. I’ve always understood that what money my father had he’d got invested in s[…]
[…]ean it was one of the first ones. He then transferred, to myknowledge, in about 1927-28 to Pathé and was a camera man for Pathé Gazette and then, whensound started, he joined Fox Movie Tele-news. Now, or then, British Movietone is. He went tothe States to learn the technique of sound coverage and ca[…]
[…] SwallowR = Paul FoxM = Alan Lawsons.l. = sounds like I: The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Sir Paul Fox. One time Manag[…]
[…]he was become the leading light in the amateur film world. And I I thought, I want to be a scientist because that's what my uncle was. I thought that sounded interesting. But I didn't I wasn't quite good. Father, I was interested in science. I didn't manage to get the sufficient A levels to get to u[…]
[…]d not be insulted with cheap programming. The cinema was Rank’s Roadshow Theatre in the Capital and had recently enjoyed a near two-year run with THE SOUND OF MUSIC. When not playing the separate performance high ticket advance booked shows it would revert to normal release product on continuous per[…]
Alan Lawson 0:05 The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project. Michael Colomb, BBC TV sound engineer, dubbing mixer and director of better sound of Endell Street interview. Alan Lawson, recorded on the 12th of June 1995. side one you know, first and foremost, wh[…]
[…]I was there for quite a bit, and then one day the chief electrician called me off the spot rail and he said, "Would you be interested in a job on the sound?" So I said, "Well, what...?" He said, "I've had a phone call from Shepherd's Bush" - which of course was our parent company - "and they want a […]
Dallas Bower Side 1Alan Lawson 00:02Dallas Bower: producer, television director, television producer, sound recordist, film editor, drama producer. Dallas, when and where were you born?Dallas Bower 00:19Kensington Hall Gardens, London 1907.Alan Lawson 00:2[…]
[…] said, "Would you be interested in a job on the sound?" So I said, "Well, what...?" He said, "I've had […]
[…] trap. Then was a lot of newsreel stuff with live sound and up to that time I'd certainly been very […]
