[…] the old films. Now I must have seen - because sound had just about come in you see, they used […]
[…] I think I was just lucky because they didn't have camera assistants on the newsreel. There was no such thing. The cameraman did everything. But live sound was just beginning and they had the couple camera, the Winton camera with the British Acoustic sound system on the back which meant they were mu[…]
[…]t about 10 o'clock in the evening, you can imagine on my first job. And all the audience came out and the manager left and it was closed up and not a sound, not a sound. Suddenly a truck with Sound City Shepperton written on it appeared, RCA truck and out came people. Of course they started laying c[…]
[…] manager left and it was closed up and not a sound, not a sound. Suddenly a truck with Sound City […]
[…]time when I didn't.Roy Fowler: It was always there?Joan Kemp-Welch: Yes.Roy Fowler: Right. And the other thing I'd like to ask is, you sound, in a sense, rather precocious, for example, you were a matron at the age of sixteen, which must have been quite...Joan Kemp-Welch: Oh, I s[…]
[…]nto the newsreel business where you've been ever since?Alf Tunwell: Yes, in 1929, British Movietone News started in this country. They were the first sound newsreel. And I fell into that job in rather a strange way. I was very friendly with a man named Tommy Scales, who's a very well known man in th[…]
[…]he cinema differently. And more seriously, but I still saw virtually everything which was a refuge, refuge from home.Interviewer 11:39 It sounds as if early on editing became a preoccupation. Is that right?Gordon Hales 11:45 No. As the gap of filming, and it was you were Juni[…]
[…] And the other thing I'd like to ask is, you sound, in a sense, rather precocious, for example, you were […]
[…] Movietone News started in this country. They were the first sound newsreel. And I fell into that job in rather […]