[…]buckets at intervals  full of water with pieces of blanket hanging down from the roof dipped into the bucket to create the humidity necessary to try to stop static. It didn't seem to make much difference to me because we were always getting reprints for static on the film. It was also a very un[…]
[…]ing's African Rifles and if you asked me what I was doing I had I was just having a wonderful time. Didn't you see much action. Not see any action to try to he never rifle. They had heard about the 25000 feet I think so yes I think so yes. I learnt to speak Swahili and was a great advantage to it. I[…]
[…]'ve come full circle. I mean I started one of nine Wall Street in the industry. I'm now working at one on one Wall Street just next door. So I seem&nb[…]
[…]and that was our meeting. And since 1936 we worked together in various levels, mind you. We did not continue when there was a crisis in the film industry and animated films just before the war. She worked then for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue and I worked for various comic magazines as illustrator.&nbs[…]
[…]buckets at intervals  full of water with pieces of blanket hanging down from the roof dipped into the bucket to create the humidity necessary to try to stop static. It didn't seem to make much difference to me because we were always getting reprints for static on the film. It was also a very un[…]
[…]: This is a recorded tape interview with Alf Tunwell. ACTT member of very long standing, and pioneer in the newsreel section of the British film industry. Alf, during your, almost a lifetime in this industry, and particularly in newsreels, you must have seen an enormous number of changes. I wondered[…]
[…]e?John Aldred: Ryde was my school and I left school at the age of 16 to start work. I had more or less decided that I wanted to go into the film industry because my interest went back a long way even though I was only 16. For instance I can remember my first visit to the cinema in the silent days, a[…]
[…]nd you were obviously very happy to get into the business to break in?Norman Fisher: Indeed. Kay Laboratories at that time were setting up a sensitometry department and sensitometry was rather a new thing then. I was in that most of the time, in Kays in fact all of the time. And I did about a year i[…]
[…]   Yes, quite true. In those days, of course, the camera used to run out before the sound. Later on it was always a fight trying to keep the synchronised on that, but never mind! Yes, the sound truck was a real thing. Now, the man behind things at British Colo[…]
[…] No,  just a mate. And what happened after that? After the plumbing job, what did you do then?Ron Hill  2:59  Well, you chasing around trying to get another job with plumbers was not easy. Because you had to have a city of London guild to get in with a firm of West end plumbers. And n[…]
