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[…] walls. Now that was new. I mean the poor old sound man used to have to poke his boom over […]
[…]in the much larger research labs in Rochester, New York. But for example, they introduced a new project, a new process, for 16mm reversal film with a soundtrack and it wasn’t working very well. It was an awkward process where you had to apply a re-developer down the edge of the film in the process a[…]
[…]still at the college and he got this job and he was very much into, of course, beautiful playing and everything will note perfect. And he was playing sounded like Schubert something or other and the little trapdoor opened beside the organ and the manager said he had golf. What do you think you're do[…]
[…]re, but can you remember anything about what your parents did in the film industry? Kent Houston 1:56 Yes, my father was a sound engineer and was involved in very early Motion Picture Sound on both sides of the Atlantic. He worked for Disney. He did some work on Fantasia, […]
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[…]d gentleman, always wore a black trilby hat and an overcoat, regardless of what the weather conditions were. And had never realised you were shooting sound. So he used to wander around the set mouthing all the words all the time, because obviously when he did the silent films he used to speak the wo[…]
[…] at Ealing and I hadn’t seen it before I would take it along to stage 1 where the white piano was, hastily pick out the main points and make it sound reasonably like it should, and then when I came along to play it to you, you would be able to say whether you liked the tune or not. I developed[…]