[…]urse there was absolutely no real system before placing it properly. So that what one had to do was to haul the box and the mic with cable up on a gantry rail and hang it. That was the only possible way of placing the mic properly above the cast, above the actors. And it gave it gave rise to the mos[…]
[…]d I thought ‘it's a bit, mmm” I joined it because obviously it's the recognised union, and there was a branch in catering, and the guy who was the pastry chef, a fellow called Dave Smith, he was the Branch Secretary. I was a member, I wasn't involved, but within a year, they had this big - so in the[…]
[…]as a homebody or come to the family I had a great reluctance to suffer the privations of the unknown I certainly wasn’t about to be dumped in the country with people. Rodney Giesler:What was you father’s occupation?Roy Fowler:Well he was a sort of small businessman; he was in the coal bus[…]
[…]had gone to the Science Museum and I'd seen Night Mail in the cinema and never forgotten it. And because I couldn't get into the theatre I decided to try the people who'd made Night Mail. And I found out where the GPO Film Unit were, they were in Soho Square. So I went there and I was told they'd mo[…]
[…]eak with a Scottish accent, Linda Wood 0:54like further. Did you have any specialised training before you started working in the film industry? Donald Wilson 1:05I went to the Glasgow School of Art. And that's the only specialised training I have. Because I had I left I had to […]
[…]l, because I’d been an instructor and I’d done the advanced instructors course and all that, they then said to me there was a vacancy at the Air Ministry for a Staff Officer to help wind up the Empire Air Training Scheme – this was virtually towards the end of the European War, and so I was posted t[…]
[…]hings? Right. Well, I was born in April 1915 in Newcastle and it was during the First World War, as you gather, and we shortly moved out into the countryside of Northumberland to a place called Bengeham [ph] and then to Charlton, a place called High Carriages [ph], and we eventually landed up at Kil[…]
[…]volved financially with it but we joined with him and we had -I went down from Cambridge and wanted to get into films and everyone said the film industry was in crisis, this was 1938, and i was involved in a small family business making keyrings, it's still going and I'm still involved with it, and […]
[…] didn’t go back. I started another little company actually to try and make commercials and those things. And we had […]
[…]mean that takes me off on a side-track which you might not be interested in, but in those days, I took for granted the culture of filming in this country which said that the cameraman had to work with a camera operator, whatever the type of film. Today I much prefer to operate myself. We were called[…]
