[…] Goodness knows actually. I've forgotten quite honestly, it was a sound camera anyway but ... Alan Lawson: I know... John […]
[…] it involve being midway points and all that, Ian Rutter 10:48 all of that we with radio links in those days. We didn't do sound, we only did the vision. So it involved rigging two foot or four foot dishes up masts, up on Eagle, towers up on water, towers, all sorts of pla[…]
[…]can filmmaker called Alan Forbes. Alan made documentary films. He was in London and he taught me about editing, and about camera operating, and about sound, and basically was a very committed filmmaker. And, God, I was lucky to work with somebody who was so inspirational and cared so much about his […]
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[…]t way. Don’t try and sharpen the contrast if it’s not there in the original.10Don’t remove all the grain. Factors like that. Don’t try to perfect the soundtrack, it wasn’t meant to be a perfect soundtrack.” You know all these factors. So I think that the balance is somewhere – use digital tools, not[…]
[…] think, but this was the first what came to be called, horribly I thought, the Classic Serial. Very daunting type of title isn’t it - Classic Serial? Sounds as if you’re going back to school.[A 10:06]And who, whose idea would that have been, have you any idea?Donald Wilson.Donald, it was Donald Wils[…]
[…]yes.Alan Lawson: What camera where you using then on that type of thing?John Turner: Goodness knows actually. I've forgotten quite honestly, it was a sound camera anyway but ...Alan Lawson: I know...John Turner: I hardly ever used a sound camera.Alan Lawson: NoJohn Turner: I mean, I knew the mechani[…]
[…]'re missing out in my view on so much but everything is.SPEAKER: M5Is there at a price. Let's then retract a moment. You had a happy childhood by the sound of it.SPEAKER: M3I wouldn't say particularly happy. No the childhood was dictated by events and the events up to 1945 when the war ended was ver[…]
[…] frustrated I was from not being able to get a job in the industry. I mean I'd done a bit of work with John. I can't remember his name now who was of sound record was actually working as a cameraman then. We did a film for children down the East End but that was not much fun because I was the man ho[…]
[…]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[…]