[…]ackground?John Krish: Yes. My father was a musician and he created a symphony orchestra of unemployed musicians - unemployed because of the coming of sound, strangely enough, people who played in the pits in cinema - and that was called 'The New Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra'. And I was one of fou[…]
[…] who was in charge of the whole of the film department up there. Well now Phil Dorte of course I knew, I'd worked with at Gaumont's. Phil Dorte was a sound recordist at Gaumont's and we worked together on - he was in the sound department, I was in the camera department but not in the same relative g[…]
[…]p;you do while you were there?What happened pertinent to "Blackmail" and the beginning of sound was Ihadn't taken into account the brilliant standard of Dulwich CollegeEngineering students&n[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] Path of course. Alan Lawson: On the sound side, the sound recordists at Path, do you remember who they were at […]
[…]yes.Alan Lawson: What camera where you using then on that type of thing?John Turner: Goodness knows actually. I've forgotten quite honestly, it was a sound camera anyway but ...Alan Lawson: I know...John Turner: I hardly ever used a sound camera.Alan Lawson: NoJohn Turner: I mean, I knew the mechani[…]