Anne Hanford

[…]es, they catalogued the film material.  There were people who looked after the technical aspects who checked it and made sure it was technically sound.  People who worked in the storage areas. I can’t remember how many people there were.  There were probably about twenty I should thin[…]

Dudley Lovell

[…]g, but I know. Victor Savile was director and he was a man to be fair. I mean, you didn't breathe, once the red light have gone up, you didn't make a sound you didn't call you choke to death rather than make a coffee. And one day, he had a very bad day, I think somebody up for the what, after the be[…]

David Prosser

[…]as one called Bunny Hutchins who used to do quite a lot of work for them, but I normally went out as second camera to any of those, and the so-called sound cameramen were Paul Wyand, who's was far and away the sort of ace of the lot, Jack Cotter, who was basically, the senior newsreel man, and Alf T[…]

Gerald Chambers

[…]aw some Ruritanian light musical comedy with Nelson Eddie and Jeanette Jeanette. Dang it Yes.John P Hamilton  9:10  So you were born in the sound booth Yes. Sound was not to mention of course sound radio Did you listen to radio? Oh,Gerald Chambers  9:17  very much so. And the wal[…]

Joe Mendoza

[…]do the first year you do a three year still photography course crammed into one year. And then the second year you do a lot of sort of heat light and sound and organic chemistry. And then the holiday between in the summer holiday between the two years you make a movie and you spent the next year I k[…]

Barbara (Bimbi) Harris

[…]ni and the other was Baird. We did a week in each studio. So we used to have to learn both systems of course. And I did all the jobs. I used to be on sound, on the floor.JH: Were you the first woman to operate a camera?BH: I was the first to operate a camera that's right, then it was upside down and[…]

Val Guest

[…] in and extra, not Jimmy Grainger. But there were a gang of us that used to be there, whether were were working or writing or doing extra work.RF: It sounds rather like a club.VG: It was.RF: And even if you weren't working on something would you hang out at the studio.VG: No, you'd meet some of the […]

Bill Mason

[…] will you write the script. I into a script, and we had two locations, we had a unit of about 14 because we had generators and sparks and an enormous sound truck, was it from Riverside, Leo Wilkins,AL : No Shepperton.BM: We had this enormous unit and I had to find accomodation for them, we were shoo[…]
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