Tim Emblem-English (TE) Archive Telecine Specialist, Former BBC Broadcast Engineer Interviewers: Paul Frith (PF) & Carolyn Rickards (CR) Date 21/05/2018 Length 01:48:52 CR: So we’re here with an interview today with Tim Emblem-English. Thank you very much for agreeing to[…]
[…] BECTU History Project. David Robson, one time cinema projectionist, television telecine operator, recording engineer, one of the pioneers of the BECTU […]
[…]Robson[Tape 1, Side 1]The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. David Robson, one time cinema projectionist, television telecine operator, recording engineer, one of the pioneers of the BECTU History Project. Interviewer Alan Lawson. Recorded on 25/3/98, side 1.Alan Law[…]
[…]anyway, during my year of training, you get taken round all the departments so that is how you get an idea of what you want to do. So, I have been in telecine, I have been in VT, I have been in the Test Room which is maintenance and all areas of the BBC. You might, potentially, you've got radio stud[…]
[…]m a current film and I used to pick the film and the music and come to London to find the clip and we had to play it in from London because we had no telecine in Manchester had to be played in from London on a Q 1955 were talking to anyone on the law 55 1950 19. This would be about would it be more […]
[…]nd the puppet show came from Pinhead was the puppet I can't remember what the series was called. And there was another one called 43, which was above TeleCine, where there were six chains doubled up feeding into a Vidicon chain. So there were three 35 mil projectors and three 60 mil projectors and w[…]
[…]ch come from?” “Well you must have done that. When it left us it was OK.” And you got into this massive area then we said, OK, we’ll have to set up a telecine unit so we could actually… when we do get this stuff coming through, we’ll have to put it on a telecine first and foremost and say “Is there […]
[…]era output and different path down film where you had a director of photography, a lighting camera man who was in charge of the image until it got to telecine, you know, so the different parts didn't quite meet at that point and didn't overlap. So that was a bit of a benchmark for me to be able to, […]
[…]cal problems. I used to look in the early days, and later even, I used to always look in the Preview Theatre if ever there was one running or go into Telecine or go into an editing booth to see what the material was like. I still did, and now, regard myself as a technician. So one of the advantages […]
[…]ucer, and I was proud to be a part of that. Most programmes were live at the time recording. We did do some recordings, but most recordings were onto telecine, and they were restricted to things like theatre excerpts from the Whitehall theatre and things like that. Nick Gilbey 54:37&[…]
