[…]I was there for quite a bit, and then one day the chief electrician called me off the spot rail and he said, "Would you be interested in a job on the sound?" So I said, "Well, what...?" He said, "I've had a phone call from Shepherd's Bush" - which of course was our parent company - "and they want a […]
[…] said, "Would you be interested in a job on the sound?" So I said, "Well, what...?" He said, "I've had […]
[…]h, and Terry, yes. Alan Lawson 5:07 Paul Terry. Bill Ward 5:07 Who was, Terry was a sound, wasn't he? Yes, senior sound. But he also ran the controller, to all intents and purposes yes, Alan Lawson 5:15 &nbs[…]
Peter Birch [A.F. Birch] ( sound engineer) 10/10/1900 - ? by admin — last modified Jul 27, 2008 02:02 PM BIOGRAPHY: […]
[…]he was become the leading light in the amateur film world. And I I thought, I want to be a scientist because that's what my uncle was. I thought that sounded interesting. But I didn't I wasn't quite good. Father, I was interested in science. I didn't manage to get the sufficient A levels to get to u[…]
[…]rom there. And I will probably interpret your question now and again.Michael Clarke 0:52 Okay, well, I'm not quite sure where I was born, sounds improbable. My first office savings was taken out by my uncle the day I was born, so electron, which is now a suburb of Warrington, and his unc[…]
[…]rned a lot very quickly because I learned… I mean at that stage we were having to copy actual discs. We were actually using big discs for sound, and I had to learn the technical side of this very quickly, and Lionel Basri was very good at teaching me. He was absolutely wonderful, w[…]
[…]23. Shall we do with that now? Oh, well, yes, they can. Well, so I went to school in the ordinary way. It Roy Fowler 20:28 sounds very conventional household which, in a way is unusual given their activity. Ronald Neame 20:33 Yes, it was conventi[…]
[…]onder why?Roy Fowler: Which was a self-awarded title was it, or rank?Eddie Dryhurst: I don't know, I know he liked to be called Commodore.Roy Fowler: Sounds like a Southern Colonelcy doesn't it? [both chuckle] So any other particular memories of film-going in the First World War?Eddie Dryhurst: No. […]
