[…]ieve the projectors we had in the projection room at cameo newsletter, I believe, was a simplex machine. That's the projector head, and I believe the sound head was Western. Electric, and I can definitely remember what the lamp houses were. It was Stelma, Stelma ? lamp houses pushing the pictu[…]
[…] at Nettlefold Studios before gaining experience as a camera operator, sound recordist, art director and editor. He also became adept […]
[…]th the whole technique of making films now? I mean the special effects are so much more impressive.Phyllis Dalton Page 52Oh, incredible.The sound. With beautiful emulsions, the film emulsions that can produce the colours now. I mean I remember shooting Eastman Color, say twenty years ago, […]
[…]rned a lot very quickly because I learned… I mean at that stage we were having to copy actual discs. We were actually using big discs for sound, and I had to learn the technical side of this very quickly, and Lionel Basri was very good at teaching me. He was absolutely wonderful, w[…]
[…]me. During its after its construction. We were still living out there. And I always remember them putting loudspeakers out on the canopy to relay the sound. And oh, no, that is strictly against all regulations now. But although we did do it at the Odeon EU street on one occasion. But anyway, that wa[…]
[…]ratory, and he owned the Comedy Theatre as well.Roy Fowler: Yes.Vernon Sewell: And it was through him I got into the movies. I started as a sound recordingengineer.Roy Fowler: What - is there anything in between? I've got that you went to Nettlefold in 1929 as a camera assistant, what[…]
[…]ilm Unit come about?Norman Fisher: Once again I had an introduction to John Grierson through Sir Gordon Craig, again, and I was taken on as assistant sound, incidentally, the studio manager then at Blackheath was Ralph Bond, and there were a lot of well-known people there, oh, Cavalcanti, Harry Watt[…]
[…] Gordon Craig, again, and I was taken on as assistant sound, incidentally, the studio manager then at Blackheath was Ralph […]
[…]g, but I know. Victor Savile was director and he was a man to be fair. I mean, you didn't breathe, once the red light have gone up, you didn't make a sound you didn't call you choke to death rather than make a coffee. And one day, he had a very bad day, I think somebody up for the what, after the be[…]
