[…]'s no substitute. If you haven't made it acoustically right you won't equalise it right.Jim Shields: No. But then you get this sort of horrible, flat sound...Maurice Askew: That's right...Jim Shields: ...which is only part of the battle of post-synch to make it fit. It is so often when you have a pi[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] history of Reading. Peter Tho rpe, friend of Tony, became sound man, later Head of Sound at EMI. We made […]
[…] started going to boys’ clubs round about 1951 or two. Sound great? And Beaumont Mews was lovely. Because Marylebone High […]
[…] their wisdom didn’t give us a first-class crew. It was an OB crew, you see, who really only shot sports actually. And they couldn’t handle the sound system so in the end we went to the Odeon. I think we did it in the Odeon. That was right wasn’t it I think?DARROL BLAKE: The […]
[…] be interested in being Executive in Charge of Production'.
I practically had an erection, it was so totally unbelievable. 'It sounds very interesting,' I said, trying not to leap up in the air. He said, 'I’ll start you off with £10,000 a year' - which was pretty goo[…]
[…]'re missing out in my view on so much but everything is.SPEAKER: M5Is there at a price. Let's then retract a moment. You had a happy childhood by the sound of it.SPEAKER: M3I wouldn't say particularly happy. No the childhood was dictated by events and the events up to 1945 when the war ended was ver[…]
[…]tment then, when Harry Dayville [ph 0:05:13] was there.Yes.And various other people and Phil Leakey came there. He was, had been once had been in the sound.Yes.But he’d had to make the crossover and we worked together a lot. And I stayed in thatand worked up till I was, was being rented out.Now I wa[…]
[…]rucks and things. It was the beginning of learning to beg borrow and steal which one has had to do ever since really. Norman Swallow: This was a sound film John Schlesinger: No, it was a silent film to which we put music synchronised on 2 tur[…]
