[…] Gordon Craig, again, and I was taken on as assistant sound, incidentally, the studio manager then at Blackheath was Ralph […]
[…]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[…]
[…] 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 […]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] Well, he was very much that. I was working as an assistant in the sound side of the editing. &nbs[…]
[…]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 [A.F. Birch] ( sound engineer) 10/10/1900 - ? by admin — last modified Jul 27, 2008 02:02 PM […]
[…] Coronation; John Davis; about editors Roy Drew and John O’Kelly; sound recording; The last days of the newsreels: Look at […]