[…]ng I did. He died when I was quite young sadly, but I don't think he ever came to see any performance of anything. And of course I was really without sounding pompous, or showing off, I really was very very famous as a child, because I did so many charity shows and so many professional shows when I […]
[…] I think I was just lucky because they didn't have camera assistants on the newsreel. There was no such thing. The cameraman did everything. But live sound was just beginning and they had the couple camera, the Winton camera with the British Acoustic sound system on the back which meant they were mu[…]
[…]in those days was particularly difficult because there were no reflex cameras as such. Arriflex was there of course but that was not a sound camera. You used to use the BNCs and they had a side view-finders so the operator could never tell if he was out of focus or not. You […]
[…] I mean, you never built sets that they were building madness, I thought really but but because the gear was so heavy, the camera gear and indeed the sound problems because the sound was all on on film, it was you know, optical sound. So we had a sound track if you went out which was rows of convert[…]
[…]e President could sign the tab. So we used to troop over there at lunchtime. And again, I digress, but it's amusing because Ian, Ian, little man, the sound recordist, smelly little man SOC would troop over there, and there would be another, yet another unedifying spectacle of everyone trying to arra[…]
[…]our of those, because I remember, and I worked with you as your focus puller at Goon on British later, we used to have either dance to put over. Yes, sounds said they were not and then they tore and the feathers used to come out all over the That's right, yes, yeah. What's the cinephone? Did you loo[…]
[…]to print the photos, develop and print the photographs that the photographers would take so I saw an advert for a Stills Photographic Technician that sounded great in Scottish Television and this was, I stayed there for a couple of years and then I applied for the job with Scottish Television and, f[…]
[…]B: The Grip, yes. I knew him as a scene shifter prior to that! PB-C: Really. And we had two electricians. DB: Ah. 25 mins PB-C: A sound recordist, Peter Evans, and an assistant sound recordist. And Peter and myself. Oh, and Dick had his assistant. DB: Barbara Saxon. PB-[…]
