Len Lawrence

[…]ies in 1934; Tony Schmitz; paid extra money for working night work (which he did 6 nights a week); long hours but good working conditions; high speed sound developers; Fred Skipper (chemical mixer/chemical fades; Jim Skipper; Mr Brookes (night manager); Mr Murray started him pos-cutting on nights; C[…]

Daphne Ancell

[…]e day and upsetting them all by saying there’s a lot of difference between scratching your arse andtearing the skin off?[Laughter] That actually sounds right.But that, that is typical. As my old man used to say when you have, they were always overstating the problems?[OI] Yes.Yes, this is it I […]

Charles Crichton

[…]s i .میبایی n John Jympson. Bill, I don’t know much about his early career but he was certainly an editor on those Mack Sennett comedy things, before sound ever came in. And he had a very direct approach to editing which was matching doesn't matter, he couldn’t be bothered with fitting, he said you […]

Douglas Slocombe

[…]of smear right over your film. So your end result bore Noel, no relation whatsoever to the to the Russians. You know, thatSpeaker 2  36:59  sounds like that was very theoretical, like some of the stuff about Technicolor had to be done in a certain way, irrespective of how one had been shot[…]

Kitty Marshall (Hermges)

[…]ember him from when he was starting to direct, you know.I’ve told you about a good many of the editors I think.Did Bob Allen work for you? Bob Allen, sound recordist?I don’t remember, no. No, we never had sound. Oh, we might have on a picture. We had electricians of course always because t[…]

Erica Masters

[…] we shot in that morgue with dry ice and the sound of the blitz and the sirens all the time. […]

Nice and Quiet? Ken Russell’s ‘The Boy Friend’ (1971)

[…] (http://historyproject.org.uk/content/lindsay-anderson) and Oswald ‘Ossie’ Morris (http://historyproject.org.uk/content/oswald-ossie-morris). Secondly there was the sound recordist Maurice Askew (http://historyproject.org.uk/content/0294) who before doing The Boy […]
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