[…]l there were two theatres to to run. And there was a huge number of vaults that wasMargaret Thompson 12:34 storage and distribution, film technicians as well and cameraman,Frances Cockburn 12:40 no, no, no. We had a, we had a production, we had a production staff, in fact, fo[…]
[…]n contract? Yes.Leslie Norman 38:25 Can I go back since you mentioned money going back to something you'd wrote an article for the solute technician aUnknown Speaker 38:31 year or so ago about a sort of cutting room striker VIPUnknown Speaker 38:37 or something? C[…]
[…] the final curtain came down. Today we can't do that.Ralph Bond: No, why? Why can't we do it?Alf Tunwell: We've got the aeroplanes, we've got all the technicians, but we have not speeded up newsreels. And that is one of the reasons why television today is just putting them out of business.Ralph Bond[…]
[…]re this Henry V thing, "We few, we band of brothers," and we really were that. And not merely the officers and sergeants, because we were all soldier technicians working together, the drivers became associated with them and if ever a couple of sergeants went off together, their driver would be total[…]
[…]t to do a show in Russia and she came back with no sound. I think she was demoted or sacked after that and I thought poor woman, because she wasn't a technician, she was a producer, but she had no sound.RF: What had gone wrong?BH: I don't know, but it didn't seem to me her fault but I remember the g[…]
[…]any means. I mean, I'd written the scripts, and I'd known what to find and shoot. And I've got the idea of compiling a film but I was no means a film technician. And I really had to go back to the beginning again, and I got jobs as cutting room assistants, for, for the next year or so. Two years, on[…]
[…]hat we had two stages there called A and B, and so they were always very busy. But a lot of names that passed through there that are quite big names, technician wise these days, and people used to want to call it a training ground as such. And they can say that they got all the experience from Merto[…]
[…]Happe who was unique in that so far as he eventually became one of the very few technicians who became internationally known, an international reputation and George Newton whose vocationreally&nb[…]
