[…]ic head put in it. And instead of where the magazine went, there were two spool holders. And we would run 35 mil on that. Also, my duties out there, especially on a big backlots set was to look after the PA which were enormous loudspeakers running on 110 volts and big amplifiers, run with an inverte[…]
[…]t then was, School Certificate and Higher School Certificate. It was mainly a Merchant Navy College, but there was a Royal Navy stream and one took a special naval entrance exam. But at about the age of 16 as a precaution, they gave us all a medical and an eye test, and I found that I was red-green […]
[…]like everybody else. You see the trouble with me is that people are to me only, I can only tell you about people if they strike me as human beings as special. And so everybody to me, whether they're Kings, Queens, Popes, to me they are people. And I have absolutely never in my life felt any differen[…]
[…]do with electricity must have some future and and so I would take a job with an electrical firm. And I did this and this was a small company that was specialising in electrical installations. In fact, they were rewiring, they were putting wiring into many of the small terraced houses in Dulwich at t[…]
[…] thought they'd picked up again out there with all these special TV films, you know all the multi-media type films, […]
[…] time in my life I came across really the, the special effects stuff, you know. A lot of special effects on […]
[…]ing as it’s not very relevant to this. But, in the motion picture training group we ran a variety of different courses from a little one-day course, especially for lab people, on film handling. Can you imagine a whole day just on film handling? But you could do that and learn a lot of good stuff. Ri[…]
[…];Where there were systems using optical feature cards, and 80-column punched cards, and combinations of 80-column punched cards for which the IWM had special machinery developed by ICL. ICL was going to be England’s big answer to IBM, and effectively, I arrived at the IWM, with David Penn as the Hea[…]
[…]days it is all records and no sheet music, hardly at all" it's all records. But once again, you see once you start getting into the big numbers, and especially if you get a hit in America, you're in big. And we were doing remarkably well, unquestionably, we were having the time of our lives.As I sai[…]
