[…]y huts. It didn’t need huts at that point. It’s just that it was a long run to pop to thecafé or the Facility Office or whatever. And the stages were soundproof. And the lake and the house was good for exteriors. (TIME 15.08) I think everybody lovedbeing there, yes. So, I wasn’t going to work there.[…]
[…] their wisdom didn’t give us a first-class crew. It was an OB crew, you see, who really only shot sports actually. And they couldn’t handle the sound system so in the end we went to the Odeon. I think we did it in the Odeon. That was right wasn’t it I think?DARROL BLAKE: The […]
[…]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[…]
[…] the shooting every weekend. [TIME 00.07.51] The nice thing about it was with each film we all rotated jobs so if you did camera on one, you would do sound, well not sound so much in those days, but you would do say continuity or something likethat, which was good, so you did get a chance. But the r[…]
[…]'re missing out in my view on so much but everything is.SPEAKER: M5Is there at a price. Let's then retract a moment. You had a happy childhood by the sound of it.SPEAKER: M3I wouldn't say particularly happy. No the childhood was dictated by events and the events up to 1945 when the war ended was ver[…]
[…] so if you did camera on one, you would do sound, well not sound so much in those days, but […]
[…]still at the college and he got this job and he was very much into, of course, beautiful playing and everything will note perfect. And he was playing sounded like Schubert something or other and the little trapdoor opened beside the organ and the manager said he had golf. What do you think you're do[…]
[…], if only to play ‘God Save the King’ at the end. But, we soon got the needle over that, you’d sit there for two hours then. In those days they had a sound manager, this poor bloke had to sit at the back of the stalls, if the sound was too loud he would press a button to take it down a bit, if it wa[…]
[…]mall. So I chucked the university course, the high school’s course, and went and took a shorthand typing course, because I thought well, from what it sounds, if I learn that I can start in, at least be earning and then find out what I want to do once I’m inside it. And that was really how it started[…]
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