[…]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[…]
[…]if there was no warning at bedtime, we would go to sleep in the usual way. But I had this mixture of excitement as well as fear sometimes I think the sound of the the warning, moaning mini as we used to call it was used to, I used to get really frightened about that. But there was the excitement of […]
[…]if there was no warning at bedtime, we would go to sleep in the usual way. But I had this mixture of excitement as well as fear sometimes I think the sound of the the warning, moaning mini as we used to call it was used to, I used to get really frightened about that. But there was the excitement of […]
[…] acoustically, because we were just about on the breakthrough for sound, and this would be about 1927-ish. And he built […]
[…] trap. Then was a lot of newsreel stuff with live sound and up to that time I'd certainly been very […]
[…]ecture, this man [laughs]. And he built some very good theatres which were very good acoustically, because we were just about on the breakthrough for sound, and this would be about 1927-ish. And he built the Rialto up in Norwood, the Albany which was virtually next door, the State Sydenham and State[…]
[…]he cinema differently. And more seriously, but I still saw virtually everything which was a refuge, refuge from home.Interviewer 11:39 It sounds as if early on editing became a preoccupation. Is that right?Gordon Hales 11:45 No. As the gap of filming, and it was you were Juni[…]
[…]arch 1925 so I’ve worked out that I was there as well as I was born in December 1925, only not terribly visible.Q: (Laughs) Um, then what, um did the sound films presumably rather kill Worton Hall didn’t they?SAMUELSON: Yes. I’ve always understood that what money my father had he’d got invested in s[…]
[…]now that we carried on for a while and then he'd made a a signal with his arm. And I've tried to figure out what he meant by that and somehow he must sound up. So I looked behind me and there was a little button that said raise and lower. So I hit raise and of course the lights went up in the theatr[…]
[…]ean it was one of the first ones. He then transferred, to myknowledge, in about 1927-28 to Pathé and was a camera man for Pathé Gazette and then, whensound started, he joined Fox Movie Tele-news. Now, or then, British Movietone is. He went tothe States to learn the technique of sound coverage and ca[…]
