John Dark

[…]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[…]

Jack Rockett

[…] Well I was there for - until Gaumont-British Picture Corporation was formed in 1930.Sidney Cole: And that was just when things were changing over to sound.Jack Rockett: That's right.Sidney Cole: Yes.Jack Rockett: Just remember that. Then I went across to - we amalgamated with PCT.Sidney Cole: I rem[…]

Johnny Goodman

[…] it? - or Bernard? He was the head of the sound department in Shepherd's Bush, Lime Grove [NB. Actually, it […]

Jack Rockett

[…] And that was just when things were changing over to sound. Jack Rockett: That's right. Sidney Cole: Yes. Jack Rockett: […]

Ian Rutter

[…] it involve being midway points and all that, Ian Rutter  10:48  all of that we with radio links in those days. We didn't do sound, we only did the vision. So it involved rigging two foot or four foot dishes up masts, up on Eagle, towers up on water, towers, all sorts of pla[…]

Mat Irvine

[…] cameras at the sun, the tube burnt out immediately. cameras don't even modern cameras don't like that. And so that night on the news, we had all the sound we had no pictures I'd rushed home. I didn't live that far away from Alexandre palace. And quickly made up models photograph them yesterday Fash[…]

Agnes Wilkie

[…]trong sense of teamwork within STV and people believing that they were doing, trying to do the best job they could. Did you also find in terms of, it sounds as if that although there was a culture within the Company that would encourage people to learn and move on and develop, did you find that peop[…]

Clyde Jeavons

[…]t way. Don’t try and sharpen the contrast if it’s not there in the original.10Don’t remove all the grain. Factors like that. Don’t try to perfect the soundtrack, it wasn’t meant to be a perfect soundtrack.” You know all these factors. So I think that the balance is somewhere – use digital tools, not[…]

Mary Harvey (Welford)

[…]s may not be allowed.Mary Harvey Tape 1 Side A1Mary Harvey Tape 1 Side ANote from transcriber: There were a couple of slight issues, the unidentified sound recordist and the not great quality sound from either of the interviewees. You will notice that almost all the transcription queries are on that[…]
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