[…]our of those, because I remember, and I worked with you as your focus puller at Goon on British later, we used to have either dance to put over. Yes, sounds said they were not and then they tore and the feathers used to come out all over the That's right, yes, yeah. What's the cinephone? Did you loo[…]
[…] because they were petrified weren't they at the arrival of sound? Peggy Gick: God I remember the westerns, when sound […]
[…] of peasants in it. Rodney Giesler: One of the first sound films was it? Dicky Leeman: No, there'd been sound […]
[…]re, but can you remember anything about what your parents did in the film industry? Kent Houston 1:56 Yes, my father was a sound engineer and was involved in very early Motion Picture Sound on both sides of the Atlantic. He worked for Disney. He did some work on Fantasia, […]
[…] 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[…]
[…]d gentleman, always wore a black trilby hat and an overcoat, regardless of what the weather conditions were. And had never realised you were shooting sound. So he used to wander around the set mouthing all the words all the time, because obviously when he did the silent films he used to speak the wo[…]
[…] boon. If you learn how to do diagonal joins. This was part of my forte in later years, because when I went to prime but I always used to cut optical sound diagonally, which usually used to infuriate all the dubbing edges as ever work was because I never seem to be able to catch on. But but it's in […]
[…] I in my interview they said did, would I like to work in the Overseas Service? And I said well, my father had lived abroad a lot and in India and it sounded very interesting, which was all you could say in those days especially at the age of twenty.Yes.Because we never travelled.No.You only travell[…]
[…]ght, might give me £100 you see, to feed my poor comrades, you see, who’d had had a terrible escape from torture and everything else. That is how, it sounds very naive but that is how I discovered there was corruption, you know. And that is purely morally I left, you know.Yes.There. And, so, and she[…]
[…].But not terribly serious, important. Roughly, at that sort of same period, I made a film called High Speed Flight, part one approaching the Speed of Sound, which I think in its way, it was a very significant film, because it wasn't even possibly is still a standard work in the Russian Air Force, th[…]
