[…]d not be insulted with cheap programming. The cinema was Rank’s Roadshow Theatre in the Capital and had recently enjoyed a near two-year run with THE SOUND OF MUSIC. When not playing the separate performance high ticket advance booked shows it would revert to normal release product on continuous per[…]
[…]23. Shall we do with that now? Oh, well, yes, they can. Well, so I went to school in the ordinary way. It Roy Fowler 20:28 sounds very conventional household which, in a way is unusual given their activity. Ronald Neame 20:33 Yes, it was conventi[…]
[…]onder why?Roy Fowler: Which was a self-awarded title was it, or rank?Eddie Dryhurst: I don't know, I know he liked to be called Commodore.Roy Fowler: Sounds like a Southern Colonelcy doesn't it? [both chuckle] So any other particular memories of film-going in the First World War?Eddie Dryhurst: No. […]
[…]y fond of each other at that stage. And he introduced me, he was a dentist and he introduced me to a patient of his who was a cameraman at Crown.Who, sounds very interesting.Yes. And he actually talked to me about the whole documentary film movement, and this stirred up a great interest in me at tha[…]
Alan Lawson 0:05 The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project. Michael Colomb, BBC TV sound engineer, dubbing mixer and director of better sound of Endell Street interview. Alan Lawson, recorded on the 12th of June 1995. side one you know, first and foremost, wh[…]
[…]ining up the machines and there were two 35 mm machine speeds which mostly did commercials and then there were two 16 mm machines and a magnetic film sound transport and there was also a brand new Rank-Cintel Mk III Telecine which we could actually, it was much more like a VTR, we could fast rewind […]
[…]e cinema, not really knowing anything about it. And as I grew up, my father had left the film business as such, and joined the BBC. And although that sounded quite a nice job, I wasn't overly interested in it. And I think like most, maybe not like most. But anyway, I felt I needed to rebel against m[…]
[…] as you know. They went over from optical to magnetic sound. I don't know if it was easy. I remember […]
[…]right in the middle of it was the Conservative Films Officer, a redoubtable lady called Winifred Crum-Ewing. She looked every inch a Tory matron, and sounded it. She always turned up at General Council meetings. And everyone was fond of her because they knew what she was going to say and amidst all […]
[…]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[…]
