[…]mall. So I chucked the university course, the high school’s course, and went and took a shorthand typing course, because I thought well, from what it sounds, if I learn that I can start in, at least be earning and then find out what I want to do once I’m inside it. And that was really how it started[…]
[…]ng over to DeForest ... Films at Clapham, he said would I go with him as a Cameraman so I ditched the Still Dept and went with him. And everyone said sound films would never come to anything and I was mad. Anyway, we had a small studio at Clapham Common and a booth, with a flexible drive which used […]
[…] later made into the first British feature film with synchronized sound. Other writing credits as a collaborator with Hitchcock include […]
[…] started going to boys’ clubs round about 1951 or two. Sound great? And Beaumont Mews was lovely. Because Marylebone High […]
[…] Elisabeth Furse, Tape 2. Yes, and, and then... David Lean, Sound Barrier, Carol Reed The Man Between, you know, and […]
[…] the size of the equipment, the film stocks, the cumbersome sound recording. Yes, there were some limitations in production. Did […]
[…]lin Miller, who worked in editor know when, when he left, Pearl and Dean, he went on to work in the live action side of the business. And he became a sound engineer. And I've recently caught up with him. And his main thing he ended up doing, he worked on a lot of the Bond films. But he was a sound e[…]
[…]ining up the machines and there were two 35 mm machine speeds which mostly did commercials and then there were two 16 mm machines and a magnetic film sound transport and there was also a brand new Rank-Cintel Mk III Telecine which we could actually, it was much more like a VTR, we could fast rewind […]
[…]important novel which changed novels because it was complete reportage - so I put Truman into a greenhouse - near - er - Ealing and - er - I put bird sounds - bird sounds on it00:12:10(Bird sound impressions) when we were interviewing him - and he said “Oh my darling you - you’ve put me […]
