[…]d not be insulted with cheap programming. The cinema was Rank’s Roadshow Theatre in the Capital and had recently enjoyed a near two-year run with THE SOUND OF MUSIC. When not playing the separate performance high ticket advance booked shows it would revert to normal release product on continuous per[…]
[…]ean it was one of the first ones. He then transferred, to myknowledge, in about 1927-28 to Pathé and was a camera man for Pathé Gazette and then, whensound started, he joined Fox Movie Tele-news. Now, or then, British Movietone is. He went tothe States to learn the technique of sound coverage and ca[…]
[…]he was become the leading light in the amateur film world. And I I thought, I want to be a scientist because that's what my uncle was. I thought that sounded interesting. But I didn't I wasn't quite good. Father, I was interested in science. I didn't manage to get the sufficient A levels to get to u[…]
[…]he very first film I worked on, they were actually into the film,making the film, was Nine Days A Queen and of course it was in the very early days ofsound. There was a sound booth on castors, there was a camera booth with glass windowsso everything had to., there were no tracking shots or panning s[…]
[…]I was there for quite a bit, and then one day the chief electrician called me off the spot rail and he said, "Would you be interested in a job on the sound?" So I said, "Well, what...?" He said, "I've had a phone call from Shepherd's Bush" - which of course was our parent company - "and they want a […]
[…] said, "Would you be interested in a job on the sound?" So I said, "Well, what...?" He said, "I've had […]
Peter Birch [A.F. Birch] ( sound engineer) 10/10/1900 - ? by admin — last modified Jul 27, 2008 02:02 PM […]
[…] at Nettlefold Studios before gaining experience as a camera operator, sound recordist, art director and editor. He also became adept […]
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