Norman Fisher

[…] Gordon Craig, again, and I was taken on as assistant sound, incidentally, the studio manager then at Blackheath was Ralph […]

Albert Critoph

[…]ieve the projectors we had in the projection room at cameo newsletter, I believe, was a simplex machine. That's the projector head, and I believe the sound head was Western. Electric, and I can definitely remember what the lamp houses were. It was Stelma,  Stelma ? lamp houses pushing the pictu[…]

Val Guest

[…] in and extra, not Jimmy Grainger. But there were a gang of us that used to be there, whether were were working or writing or doing extra work.RF: It sounds rather like a club.VG: It was.RF: And even if you weren't working on something would you hang out at the studio.VG: No, you'd meet some of the […]

Carol Owens

[…]cutting room and that was being worked on, liaising with production and the other disciplines as well. You know when the film was finished you do the sound track-lay and when the transmission print came back from the laboratory then just making up the rolls to, ready to go to telecine. So well, lots[…]

John Krish

[…]ackground?John Krish: Yes. My father was a musician and he created a symphony orchestra of unemployed musicians - unemployed because of the coming of sound, strangely enough, people who played in the pits in cinema - and that was called 'The New Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra'. And I was one of fou[…]

Teddy Darvas

[…]k he went to Berlin - where he became a film doctor. Films that were unshowable, obviously silent films ..John Legard: Special type of editor it sounds like.Teddy Darvas: That's right, unshowable, you had to try and make it showable and if it was showable you got paid. And one of Zoli's st[…]

Cynthia Moody

[…]              Well, he was very much that. I was working as an assistant in the sound side of the editing.                    &nbs[…]

Kay Mander

[…]an hour and a quarter.Kay Mander: About an hour...Third Person: These were the pound-a-footers, were they? Or...Sidney Cole: Yes, because three weeks sounds a long time, the ones I edited were usually shot in ten days.Third Person: It does.Kay Mander: Well I may be wrong about that.Third Person: But[…]

Peter Birch

Peter Birch [A.F. Birch] ( sound engineer) 10/10/1900 - ? by admin — last modified Jul 27, 2008 02:02 PM […]

Ted Candy Transcript

[…] Coronation; John Davis; about editors Roy Drew and John O’Kelly; sound recording; The last days of the newsreels: Look at […]
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