[…]mn, and I didn't, and still don't.Ralph Bond : Very good Maurice. All the films we've mentioned so far were silent films. What was your reaction when sound came in?Maurice Elvey : Oh, I was greatly relieved. You see my early training was, as you know, the theatre. So that one realised, of course, th[…]
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[…] of peasants in it. Rodney Giesler: One of the first sound films was it? Dicky Leeman: No, there'd been sound […]
[…] o far were silent films. What was your reaction when sound came in? Maurice Elvey : Oh, I was greatly […]
[…]we made this film and I had to do everything - the rushes - I had… you know, I knew nothing. I was totally ignorant about the camera, about the sound I just knew nothing but boy did I learn and very quickly. TD: Do you remember who was on the unit with you? AY: Well Donal[…]
[…] called Marie Burke. I don't remember a lot about it, except I was in the crowd as one of the sort of peasants in it.Rodney Giesler: One of the first sound films was it?Dicky Leeman: No, there'd been sound for some time on that.Rodney Giesler: And this was at BIP was it?Dicky Leeman: Yes. And then I[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]ng over to DeForest ... Films at Clapham, he said would I go with him as a Cameraman so I ditched the Still Dept and went with him. And everyone said sound films would never come to anything and I was mad. Anyway, we had a small studio at Clapham Common and a booth, with a flexible drive which used […]
[…] technically demanding spaces of the projectionist’s ‘box,’ rewind room and sound room to ensure that British audiences could keep calm, […]
