[…]in the much larger research labs in Rochester, New York. But for example, they introduced a new project, a new process, for 16mm reversal film with a soundtrack and it wasn’t working very well. It was an awkward process where you had to apply a re-developer down the edge of the film in the process a[…]
[…]o I've found with Maurice [Askew] that when you were post-synching and you could accept that it was a live - you were halfway there because it didn't sound flat and horrible. And with effects too, you say - well you didn't have to mention anything, I mean, he would give it it's maximum, you were hel[…]
[…]I think that's what...with so many films on at BIP, we couldn't have had much stage space, I can't remember exactly how much we had.John Legard: That sounds quite a healthy period in British filmmaking...Peggy Gick: It was very busy, yes.John Legard: ...in 1935 we're talking about, '34, '35?Peggy Gi[…]
[…]es. And walking and movement I think they are… its… its different I mean they’re changing over her now. I hope.Yeah sort of. Yeah sort of some of the sound sort of people have said that the American actors were at doing voice overs if necessary much better than the British ones who tend to freeze up[…]
[…] lead, Redd Davis was the director, the studio was then run by Norman Loudon and Maggie was his secretary.SC: It had another name then, was it called Sound City?RP: Sound City, that's right. SC: Tell me something if you remember anything special about Redd Davis as the director.RP: I don't real[…]
[…] talking about her days in television. When I was in sound, in radio, I did a tremendous lot of editing […]
[…] particularly interesting on working relations between different departments - the sound and camera departments for instance, and on the relations […]
[…]e any major considerations during that transition? Did your approach change at all?PS: It necessarily changed, but in that period one would hear what sounds like a ridiculous question today: Is this a colour film, is this film suitable for colour, or is it a black and white film? Really, truthfully […]
[…]- the area coming from a Tipperary town, Sean Breen, all of that is a very Republican area. RL: 6:39 Right. What about - so this will sound like a daft question, but I've always thought that you, clearly you raised Republican, but why, how were your Labour Party politics shaped? […]
