[…]e that… I… there was a mutual respect where I never tried to pretend that I knew much about music. I used to leave it to them. And on the sound side, and on the rest of it, they used to leave it to me. So there was this mutual respect… so there wasn’t this professional musici[…]
Dallas Bower Side 1Alan Lawson 00:02Dallas Bower: producer, television director, television producer, sound recordist, film editor, drama producer. Dallas, when and where were you born?Dallas Bower 00:19Kensington Hall Gardens, London 1907.Alan Lawson 00:2[…]
[…]d not be insulted with cheap programming. The cinema was Rank’s Roadshow Theatre in the Capital and had recently enjoyed a near two-year run with THE SOUND OF MUSIC. When not playing the separate performance high ticket advance booked shows it would revert to normal release product on continuous per[…]
[…] does, and so my first ambition was to become a sound engineer. So that was the intention. When I got to […]
[…]InterviewJim Betteridge 0:00 Okay, well, I'm here on the 29th of September 2011, talking to Graham Hartstone. about his life in sound. And we're going back to 1961. Graham Hartstone 0:13 1961. Yes. Jim Betteridge 0:14 […]
Alan Lawson 0:05 The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project. Michael Colomb, BBC TV sound engineer, dubbing mixer and director of better sound of Endell Street interview. Alan Lawson, recorded on the 12th of June 1995. side one you know, first and foremost, wh[…]
[…]s fussing in the studio; she was agitated, in a state, and somebody came up and said, you’ll be alright if you do so-and-so, so-and-so. It was a sound problem or something. And I think I really meant to be kindly to her, to stop her agitating, and I went, ‘Oh, it’ll be alright’. And I look[…]
[…] SwallowR = Paul FoxM = Alan Lawsons.l. = sounds like I: The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Sir Paul Fox. One time Manag[…]
[…]ean it was one of the first ones. He then transferred, to myknowledge, in about 1927-28 to Pathé and was a camera man for Pathé Gazette and then, whensound started, he joined Fox Movie Tele-news. Now, or then, British Movietone is. He went tothe States to learn the technique of sound coverage and ca[…]
