John Aldred

[…] I probably most of all. I was the only English sound technician engaged on this film and the rest of the […]

John Aldred

[…]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[…]

Winston (Wyn) Ryder

[…]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[…]

Harry Miller

BECTU History Project Interview with HARRY MILLER – sound, sound editorInterview Date(s): 23 October 1987, 12 September 1988Interview number: 20Interviewers: ROY FOWLER, ALAN LAWSON Tape 1, Side 1 ALAN LAWSON: This recording is copyright by the ACTT History Project.   Harry Miller dub[…]

Peter T Handford

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[…]

Anne V Coates

[…]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[…]

Gordon McCallum

Gordon McCallum ( sound engineer) 26/5/1919 - 10/9/1989 by admin — last modified Jul 27, 2008 02:38 PM BIOGRAPHY: Gordon […]

Erwin Hillier

[…]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[…]

Gordon McCallum

[…]gestion, when I was just sixteen that he wanted to go into the film industry, and did, and I thought, "What a damn good idea!" Because if I went into sound, I would be following my inclinations and, of course, I had been quite an enthusiastic schoolboy actor and things like that. I was interested in[…]
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