Leonard Harris

[…] the old films. Now I must have seen - because sound had just about come in you see, they used […]

James Arthur Clark

[…]ost exquisite nature most beautiful room and on Sunday nights in the winter he would give us a movie show. It was the high spot of the week. It was a sound projector of course and he used to get these pictures from government British Jebus scope film library. Always preceded by a short which would b[…]

Julie_Harris_Final

[…] to France or to Geneva to do fittings which may sound fun but it isn't. Means a lot of trailing […]

Donald Wilson

[…] the king of Greece for as being shown around the studios by Joe with a little entourage behind him. And Joe was indicating this cameras and this new sound equipment and they've got in and so on and so forth. Then you turn ratio but of course you manage all this must be Greek to you. This was this w[…]

Len Runkel

[…]ll? You gotta remember, I was born in Wood Green. My father was born in Battersea, but brought up in near Wood Green, so obviously we were within the sound of Tottenham. Well,Unknown Speaker  18:16  Tottenham, Hotspur, yeah, which was, was also quite an important thing still, is to some ex[…]

Kay Mander

[…]an hour and a quarter.Kay Mander: About an hour...Third Person: These were the pound-a-footers, were they? Or...Sidney Cole: Yes, because three weeks sounds a long time, the ones I edited were usually shot in ten days.Third Person: It does.Kay Mander: Well I may be wrong about that.Third Person: But[…]

Roger Bernard Newbold Smither

[…]tion of shot, close-up, medium close-up, whatever, a description of what was happening for those two feet, and the transcript for the matching bit of soundtrack, and you’d do  it all again for the next shot and for the whole of what I think was a five- or six-reel film. It took months and this […]

Wolfgang Suschitzky

[…]. Peter Bradford came to join us,Unknown Speaker  22:31  and Frances gas and I already mentioned,Speaker 1  22:39  did you have a sound department? Did you generally do think sound or not very often, notSpeaker 2  22:45  very often. Man, if we did, we engaged as sound. […]

Peter Tanner

[…]t about 10 o'clock in the evening, you can imagine on my first job. And all the audience came out and the manager left and it was closed up and not a sound, not a sound. Suddenly a truck with Sound City Shepperton written on it appeared, RCA truck and out came people. Of course they started laying c[…]
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