[…]fine timings, I think I Wrote a basic theme and I think they edited the film to that theme. Robert Hamer directed it. And he said we want a tune that Sounds like a Cross between an English folksong and a Haydn quartet. And so I did my best. The ironic thing was that little film was used as the short[…]
[…]ob gone of course but I had I had the fortunate thing of living next door to a cameraman called Jack Whitehead and Jack Whitehead got me a job in the sound department at Chip's Bush studios. Why were you so keen on major so keen on getting into the films. I haven't the faintest idea. Did you go to f[…]
[…] So that was turned down, Then a chap called Jimmy Verity who then turned up and you asked me about my education, this was it, Jimmy Verity, bought a sound van for £ 100 and he wanted my father to pay for this van, we were going to go round the countryside making films and he turned that down as wel[…]
[…] history of Reading. Peter Tho rpe, friend of Tony, became sound man, later Head of Sound at EMI. We made […]
[…] fire the gun. John Taylor: Couldn't they just put the sound on. Billy Williams: There was no recoil, no smoke. […]
[…] d n ' t g o t a n y sound equipment and they were able to do it through […]
[…] We alter nated between being a cameraman , being a sound boom operator , and being a director. And then […]
[…] change, doing something different. That can be just as relaxing. I mean, I think now the word ‘relax’, like you have on the radio these voices which sound like they’re about to go to sleep telling you to relax, that’s the image we have of ‘relaxing’ now.JR: Yes, that’s a very good point.VM: I don’t[…]
