[…] I think I was just lucky because they didn't have camera assistants on the newsreel. There was no such thing. The cameraman did everything. But live sound was just beginning and they had the couple camera, the Winton camera with the British Acoustic sound system on the back which meant they were mu[…]
[…]our of those, because I remember, and I worked with you as your focus puller at Goon on British later, we used to have either dance to put over. Yes, sounds said they were not and then they tore and the feathers used to come out all over the That's right, yes, yeah. What's the cinephone? Did you loo[…]
[…] the shooting every weekend. [TIME 00.07.51] The nice thing about it was with each film we all rotated jobs so if you did camera on one, you would do sound, well not sound so much in those days, but you would do say continuity or something likethat, which was good, so you did get a chance. But the r[…]
[…]nnington. 1927 the Queen’s Hall, Dover. And my father who was the by that time projectionist and film booker argued with his father about sound, because his father said it was a fad and his daughter would no longer be able to play the piano to accompany the films and therefore he would n[…]
[…] boon. If you learn how to do diagonal joins. This was part of my forte in later years, because when I went to prime but I always used to cut optical sound diagonally, which usually used to infuriate all the dubbing edges as ever work was because I never seem to be able to catch on. But but it's in […]
[…]s. I was born in Leicester when I was three or four. We moved to London some really before. I hardly remember growing up in. Leicestershire. The name sounds it could have been Scandinavian. Well they say anybody anybody from east to walking straight ensures that a song in this is the old Anglo is in[…]
[…]dventure. It really was adventurous. Alan Lawson 24:08 And it was sorry. It wasn't...technical question. There was no sound because... Tony Bridgewater 24:14 We weren't broadcasting Alan Lawson 24:17 In Selfridges […]
[…]e President could sign the tab. So we used to troop over there at lunchtime. And again, I digress, but it's amusing because Ian, Ian, little man, the sound recordist, smelly little man SOC would troop over there, and there would be another, yet another unedifying spectacle of everyone trying to arra[…]
[…]ng over to DeForest ... Films at Clapham, he said would I go with him as a Cameraman so I ditched the Still Dept and went with him. And everyone said sound films would never come to anything and I was mad. Anyway, we had a small studio at Clapham Common and a booth, with a flexible drive which used […]
[…] so if you did camera on one, you would do sound, well not sound so much in those days, but […]
