[…] Dark had another film for Paramount and he wanted a sound supervisor to go to Rome for 12 months to do […]
[…]ophone. I can remember going to see another documentary about a lion called Zimba. The first half was silent and the second half had Western Electric sound and the projectionist was sitting in the middle of the audience. This was about the time I bought the projector I mentioned. I also started savi[…]
[…]he did two liners, two big liners, she did the nursery, painting nursery rhymes and so on, and she said to my parents one day “They want a boy in the Sound Department”. Sound had just come in and I thought, ‘marvellous’ you know. Films were so important in those days and sound just beginning so I to[…]
This copyright of this interview is vested in the BECTU History Project.Interviewer Bob AllenThis is an interview with Peter Handford, sound recordist, and it is taking place in his studio where most of the train records for which he is quite famous have been put together at his home. The date is th[…]
[…]say.
[laughs] I don’t think I would go so far as to say that.
Oh I would. I would. And we’re in Chelsea Park Gardens, and you can hear the bird sounds in the background. Anne, if it isn’t ungallant, may I ask you where and when you were born for the record?
Yah. I was born in, on December t[…]
[…] interesting experience my efforts at acting ... John P. Hamilton 6:36 Were you purely a performe or did you indulge in in sound? Obviously we're moving towards your hobbies as a child, did they have any bearing on you're finishing up in the BBC and in broadcast[…]
[…]fat: This presumably made you notice what one would have to call the deficiencies at home, the lack of discussion, the flow of ideas and so on school sounds a rather better place to be from your point of view. Did you …Philip Donnellan: Well yes that's it, it sounds an awful thing to say but o[…]
[…]went out there to see him. Now, most interesting, because D P Field was the Chief Maintenance Engineer and a Mr Arry Overtown who was the Chief Sound and D P Field had a fair number of staff which were all ETU, all except the man who was looking after what is called - which I will describe in […]
[…]e of Germany and all the other political side and so on. So we were then taken back to Germany. I couldn't speak a word of German, only English. This sounds crazy. We were trying to put me in a school, and the teacher, the headmaster, said I needed at least private less for six months or more, stude[…]