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[…] Sewell: Yes. [Tape Ends] Vernon Sewell Film Director 1930s - Sound Engineer, Nettlefold Studios Work with Michael Powell & various independents […]

[…]me. During its after its construction. We were still living out there. And I always remember them putting loudspeakers out on the canopy to relay the sound. And oh, no, that is strictly against all regulations now. But although we did do it at the Odeon EU street on one occasion. But anyway, that wa[…]

[…]Allen and directed by Harold French called unpublished story, starred Valerie Hobson and Richard Green. The, the ACTT shop steward was a boom man the sound man called Percy Dayton. And he said, Well, you will have to join the union and I said, I've been longing to join the union. So I arranged and I[…]

[…]ratory, and he owned the Comedy Theatre as well.Roy Fowler: Yes.Vernon Sewell: And it was through him I got into the movies. I started as a sound recordingengineer.Roy Fowler: What - is there anything in between? I've got that you went to Nettlefold in 1929 as a camera assistant, what[…]

[…]g Acre; and then I branched out. I couldn't see any future actually in the disc rotating television. It was too crude, so I got the offer of a job as sound chief in a film studio. My type of person with sound experience was the only type of person they could apply to to run their sound department at[…]

[…]tarted.Alan Lawson: Yes...Leonard Harris: And I used to go down there - it was quite cheap, and saw all the old films. Now I must have seen - because sound had just about come in you see, they used to show mostly silent films, they could only afford that and then when eventually they got sound equip[…]

[…]he very first film I worked on, they were actually into the film,making the film, was Nine Days A Queen and of course it was in the very early days ofsound. There was a sound booth on castors, there was a camera booth with glass windowsso everything had to., there were no tracking shots or panning s[…]

[…] the old films. Now I must have seen - because sound had just about come in you see, they used […]

[…]ieve the projectors we had in the projection room at cameo newsletter, I believe, was a simplex machine. That's the projector head, and I believe the sound head was Western. Electric, and I can definitely remember what the lamp houses were. It was Stelma,  Stelma ? lamp houses pushing the pictu[…]

[…]at I stop all that nonsense and get on with my homework. But on the whole, I didn't have any, particularly no academic leanings. I'm not, I'm not. It sounds like some sort of force. Mostly, I'm not very bright and I'm not very quick, but I'm very dogged.Roy Fowler  1:45  Well, in most peop[…]