[…]y Newman and he is very funny about him...so that would beCB: Oh he was a funny fellow (laughs).I: Yes (laughs), so you were much sought after by the sound of it.CB: Well, you know, I didn’t go straight into, into big parts, I mean, but my. I think it’s interesting that my first part in front of the[…]
[…]ion and saw this image I must have seen it in the trailer.SPEAKER: M5That's the only image and that's the only memory I have a film didn't I think it sounds like one of those sort of French surrealist film scenes that no one you really have been seeing that somebody went mad in the Foreign Legion an[…]
[…]ll? You gotta remember, I was born in Wood Green. My father was born in Battersea, but brought up in near Wood Green, so obviously we were within the sound of Tottenham. Well,Unknown Speaker 18:16 Tottenham, Hotspur, yeah, which was, was also quite an important thing still, is to some ex[…]
[…]in those days was particularly difficult because there were no reflex cameras as such. Arriflex was there of course but that was not a sound camera. You used to use the BNCs and they had a side view-finders so the operator could never tell if he was out of focus or not. You […]
[…]t wasn't a good idea because I actually failed my course at university and, funny enough, failed graduates were what were perceived to be the head of Sound Department at STV's idea of the right kind of person to put in the team because graduates, at a functional level, graduates always wanted to mov[…]
[…]do the first year you do a three year still photography course crammed into one year. And then the second year you do a lot of sort of heat light and sound and organic chemistry. And then the holiday between in the summer holiday between the two years you make a movie and you spent the next year I k[…]
[…]tarted.Alan Lawson: Yes...Leonard Harris: And I used to go down there - it was quite cheap, and saw all the old films. Now I must have seen - because sound had just about come in you see, they used to show mostly silent films, they could only afford that and then when eventually they got sound equip[…]
[…]. Peter Bradford came to join us,Unknown Speaker 22:31 and Frances gas and I already mentioned,Speaker 1 22:39 did you have a sound department? Did you generally do think sound or not very often, notSpeaker 2 22:45 very often. Man, if we did, we engaged as sound. […]
[…] in and extra, not Jimmy Grainger. But there were a gang of us that used to be there, whether were were working or writing or doing extra work.RF: It sounds rather like a club.VG: It was.RF: And even if you weren't working on something would you hang out at the studio.VG: No, you'd meet some of the […]
[…]s reel – there were two. Q:Two. 00:22:36ADOLPH:Two or three, according to the importance, you see. You had the car with your camera and sound gear, you see. Q:Well sound, not yet. Not yet sound. We’re still in 1918, ‘19, yes? 00:22:55ADOLPH:[???] sound only started in 193[…]
