Mickey Hickey

Mickey Hickey (projectionist and sound recordist) 29/6/1914 - ? by admin — last modified Jul 27, 2008 02:17 PM 1920-30s […]

Louise Willcox

[…]ker  0:04  the copyright of this recording is vested in the back to history project. The name of the interviewee is Louise Wilcox, who is a sound supervisor. The name of the interviewer is Vanessa Jackson and the date is 29th of March 2019.Unknown Speaker  0:22  So, Louise, can w[…]

Michael (Mickey) Hickey

[…]ng the Vitaphone system, you know, with Warner Brothers. And we also had this double header stuff which was - at the side of the projector we had the sound unit. But whether it was us and not knowing what we were doing and not having proper tuition, [chuckles] to this day I don't know, but it never […]

Erwin Hillier

[…]e of Germany and all the other political side and so on. So we were then taken back to Germany. I couldn't speak a word of German, only English. This sounds crazy. We were trying to put me in a school, and the teacher, the headmaster, said I needed at least private less for six months or more, stude[…]

Alan Lawson

[…]dear old Joe Rosenthal, he came down. Billy Shenton also came down and did some extra scenes, or some extra camerawork. We also did some experimental sound recording with British Acoustics but it was a full width track and the picture camera had it's two back legs in a special kind of booth in the s[…]

Alan Lawson

[…] class people. I think there might have been the odd sound engineer who had broken through from being an electrician of […]

Sydney Samuelson

[…]arch 1925 so I’ve worked out that I was there as well as I was born in December 1925, only not terribly visible.Q: (Laughs) Um, then what, um did the sound films presumably rather kill Worton Hall didn’t they?SAMUELSON: Yes. I’ve always understood that what money my father had he’d got invested in s[…]

Roger Davis

[…]e aircraft at the at the airfields where the aircraft were deployed. So sort of double. So anyway, that's, that's that.Speaker 2  14:03  It sounds like a lot of responsibility for you, man.Speaker 1  14:08  It's ridiculous, really, because I was only 18. But I suppose they must h[…]

William R Vicker

[…];sorry. You said you have your apprentice papers there. Describe them to us. My first reference. Can you describe them to us, since we're it's only a sound, you know, people can't see them, so if you can explain what they are, well,Speaker 1  8:14  well it, it sets out the the number of ho[…]

Ernest Marsh

[…] changing from one projector to the other, the film, on average, would have five or six reels, and you had to synchronize the movement between of the sound and the picture, between one projector and the other. And that was no. Certified at the end of the film, about 12 feet from the end of the film,[…]
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