[…] (BIP) at Elstree were getting fitted out with the latest sound recording kit, to enable them to make talkies. He […]
[…]t in the finished product. And everybody knew their jobs and they knew how to work together in co-operation with the other. I mean the camera and the sound people, I'd keep telling 'em to keep their mikes out of the picture! [Chuckles] And the - and the soundman would tell us to keep our cameras qui[…]
[…]'s no substitute. If you haven't made it acoustically right you won't equalise it right.Jim Shields: No. But then you get this sort of horrible, flat sound...Maurice Askew: That's right...Jim Shields: ...which is only part of the battle of post-synch to make it fit. It is so often when you have a pi[…]
[…]ld Michael Bentine he was so disappointed and upset about that. That really was his, the distillation of everything, goon type humour.John Taylor: It sounds as if working conditions were very easy during this period Somebody said do this and you just went ahead and did it.Jimmy Gilbert: It was all e[…]
[…] Fowler: Right. And what were your budgets? Andy Worker: Oh, thirty thousand, thirty-five thousand. Roy Fowler: Ah hmm - and these were, it sounds, proving grounds - testing grounds for talent? Andy Worker: Oh yes, hmm. Roy Fowler: In front of the camera or behind the camera?&nbs[…]
[…] of peasants in it. Rodney Giesler: One of the first sound films was it? Dicky Leeman: No, there'd been sound […]
[…] always running out of money in those days... Roy Fowler: Sound City? Andy Worker: Hmm. And Tony Kimmins told me […]
A brief Memoir from a member of the sound department at MGM Borehamwood which sheds a little light on the […]
[…] technically demanding spaces of the projectionist’s ‘box,’ rewind room and sound room to ensure that British audiences could keep calm, […]