Michael Houldey

[…]ree weeks, I suppose. And for the boy, I met one of the steel workers who had a small holding lot of the steel workers tried to get away from all the Sound and the Fury and the noise and all the rest of it and, and live on the hillside and really have chickens and vegetables and just to get away fro[…]

Kent Houston

[…]re, but can you remember anything about what your parents did in the film industry? Kent Houston  1:56  Yes, my father was a sound engineer and was involved in very early Motion Picture Sound on both sides of the Atlantic. He worked for Disney. He did some work on Fantasia, […]

Pamela Mann-Francis (nee Mann)

[…]he publicity department, over to 146 Piccadilly, and started with Norman Spencer and David Lean. I was secretary to the two of them, and that was pre Sound Barrier. And we worked on the script of The Sound Barrier and the casting of Sound Barrier at 146 Piccadilly.  And then pre-production[…]

Anthony Mendleson

[…]dred pairs?" "Oh yes, no problem." So we had three hundred pairs, dirt-cheap! And then, of course the problems started. We had to pack them, then the sound people said, "You can't use those, the noise on the cobbles is too..." So we had to felt each pair!Linda Wood : [laughs.]Anthony Mendleson : It […]

June Randall

[…]hen after we built a new canteen they told usthe studios were closing.1: [laughter]Just as we’d built a new canteen.1: And not only that, but they re-soundproofed the whole studio and on the day we were leaving they were still wheeling in new sound equipment. Do you remember that?[laughter] Typical![…]

Muriel Cole

[…] used to track to him sometimes along the sidelines, but the leading cast was pretty good. Then, a film whichSpeaker 2  43:14  I can find a sound Peter Finch was interesting. His memoirs, I remember reading some years later, he was very appreciative of what he learned in those early years,[…]

Gordon Courcha

[…]e American Ampex machines are an order that relied on because the bandwidth for television signal is much wider thanUnknown Speaker  11:58  sound.Unknown Speaker  12:01  And the governing factor really is the head to tape speed and the size of the gap in the head. And the Ampex m[…]
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