[…]ieve the projectors we had in the projection room at cameo newsletter, I believe, was a simplex machine. That's the projector head, and I believe the sound head was Western. Electric, and I can definitely remember what the lamp houses were. It was Stelma, Stelma ? lamp houses pushing the pictu[…]
[…]onder why?Roy Fowler: Which was a self-awarded title was it, or rank?Eddie Dryhurst: I don't know, I know he liked to be called Commodore.Roy Fowler: Sounds like a Southern Colonelcy doesn't it? [both chuckle] So any other particular memories of film-going in the First World War?Eddie Dryhurst: No. […]
[…]ratory, and he owned the Comedy Theatre as well.Roy Fowler: Yes.Vernon Sewell: And it was through him I got into the movies. I started as a sound recordingengineer.Roy Fowler: What - is there anything in between? I've got that you went to Nettlefold in 1929 as a camera assistant, what[…]
[…]d Lanning 1:14 My name is Howard Lanning. I was born in 1932, in the East End of London, and I've been in the film industry as a Film and Sound Editor for more than 50 years.Derek Threadgall 1:35 Then we get into the meat of it.Unknown Speaker 1:38 Now I've got th[…]
[…]g Acre; and then I branched out. I couldn't see any future actually in the disc rotating television. It was too crude, so I got the offer of a job as sound chief in a film studio. My type of person with sound experience was the only type of person they could apply to to run their sound department at[…]
[…]an hour and a quarter.Kay Mander: About an hour...Third Person: These were the pound-a-footers, were they? Or...Sidney Cole: Yes, because three weeks sounds a long time, the ones I edited were usually shot in ten days.Third Person: It does.Kay Mander: Well I may be wrong about that.Third Person: But[…]
[…] Coronation; John Davis; about editors Roy Drew and John O’Kelly; sound recording; The last days of the newsreels: Look at […]
[…]born in Oakley St., Kennington not very far according to one report from where Charlie Chaplin was born. If the wind was favourable it was within the sound of Bow Bells, so I suppose I could call (myself a Cockney. That was 31st October 1903.AL: What schooling did you receive?SC: I had ordinary prim[…]
[…] extended discussions of the technical difficulties which the introduction of sound and colour (particularly Technicolor) presented to the art director. […]
[…] born. If the wind was favourable it was within the sound of Bow Bells, so I suppose I could call […]
