[…]t wasn't a good idea because I actually failed my course at university and, funny enough, failed graduates were what were perceived to be the head of Sound Department at STV's idea of the right kind of person to put in the team because graduates, at a functional level, graduates always wanted to mov[…]
[…] had long careers in the film and TV industry. We've just done the interview with Doreen. So this interview is with Brian, who had a long career as a sound recordist. So Brian, if you'd like to just start us off with telling us when and where you were born where you went to school.Speaker 2 0:[…]
[…]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 cinema differently. And more seriously, but I still saw virtually everything which was a refuge, refuge from home.Interviewer 11:39 It sounds as if early on editing became a preoccupation. Is that right?Gordon Hales 11:45 No. As the gap of filming, and it was you were Juni[…]
[…] called Virgilio de Souza, and he doubled as projectionist and sound recordist. We had a clockwork Newman for filming in dangerous […]
[…] it. And a fellow named Syd Wiles who became a sound recordist. You know Sid? Well you know Sid... Manny Yospa: […]
[…]right in the middle of it was the Conservative Films Officer, a redoubtable lady called Winifred Crum-Ewing. She looked every inch a Tory matron, and sounded it. She always turned up at General Council meetings. And everyone was fond of her because they knew what she was going to say and amidst all […]
[…]t about 10 o'clock in the evening, you can imagine on my first job. And all the audience came out and the manager left and it was closed up and not a sound, not a sound. Suddenly a truck with Sound City Shepperton written on it appeared, RCA truck and out came people. Of course they started laying c[…]
[…] BIP Elstree; first Ring at Covent Garden; offered position as sound recordist at Elstree; childhood interest in cinema – as a […]
