[…] I mean, you never built sets that they were building madness, I thought really but but because the gear was so heavy, the camera gear and indeed the sound problems because the sound was all on on film, it was you know, optical sound. So we had a sound track if you went out which was rows of convert[…]
[…]start a family business. Just after the war with his father, with his brother-in-law, I believe.Jonathan Balcon 12:52 Yeah, yes, and this sounds absolutely fine.Roy Fowler 12:57 And by the time your father came along he was quite a figure in the distribution business was he n[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]aw some Ruritanian light musical comedy with Nelson Eddie and Jeanette Jeanette. Dang it Yes.John P Hamilton 9:10 So you were born in the sound booth Yes. Sound was not to mention of course sound radio Did you listen to radio? Oh,Gerald Chambers 9:17 very much so. And the wal[…]
[…] that, to go to the revitalised British Film Institute which Denis Forman had been appointed to and had taken over, and edit their magazine Sight And Sound, which he pretty well created. And of course it was those days which were very active and Denis Forman was a very important chap because it was […]
[…].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[…]
[…]d so the first interview I went to was at a shipping firm and I was told that I’d be typing invoices, three pounds fifteen a week, and I thought that sounded fairly dreary, so the next one was on a Thursday at the National Gallery. I was living in Tonbridge, my mother had settled in Tonbridge and I […]
[…]from the COI should go and generally control the production and I and I went and a good couple of years move couple of movies on camera, man, and the sound and the sound and yes, what you can what you do in a case like that, I mean, you can hardly a Director of Operations for what you can do is to l[…]
[…] who was in charge of the whole of the film department up there. Well now Phil Dorte of course I knew, I'd worked with at Gaumont's. Phil Dorte was a sound recordist at Gaumont's and we worked together on - he was in the sound department, I was in the camera department but not in the same relative g[…]
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