[…] but I did ultimately go to their engineering manager, say if you offered me that the answer will be no, you know, and I'm not here to be able to LCS universal standby. I am actually a sound supervisor in my own right. And funnily enough, this year, all the jobs that were queried with, I had a probl[…]
[…]sp; No: one Sky Sports channel, Sky News, two movies channels, and Sky One. Sky One budget about £30 million/year, all acquired. I was in charge of Sky One, looking after movies channels[…]
[…]for them anymore. And this was, of course, the march of television, the march of television, and our weakness, having no significant and reliable and universal outlet. were destroying us. Then I think there was most strange, interesting of all, there was a third reason which destroyed us. This […]
[…]in Aberdeen. Oh, no, no, there was no doubt about it, there was no sense of that at all. Except, of course, he was obviously extremely worried by the news coming out of Germany. He was instrumental, he in fact he employed Renata Muller in a film. He was responsible indirectly for getting a number of[…]
[…]do you remember? It was specially written wasn’t it?Y es.Yes, of course, it was.It was written by John Miles.Ah, ha.And, and a young lad who did some news reporting as well. And we rehearsed in town, we rehearsed in town. It was, it was a lot of hard work, it was a lot of hard work, because, as I sa[…]
[…] or anything like that. And they would, you had to use a lot of them, so you had multiplicity of shadows. And they gave the light. They were okay for newsreel filming, but whereas you can use quartz lights virtually for feature lighting, color trans were all right, but they were much more difficult […]
[…]t? 00:30:50ADOLPH:Yes. Q:Can you tell us about … 00:30:52ADOLPH:You see you had a, you had Pathé, Gaum-, Gaumont, Paramount, and Universal. Q:And Movietone. 00:31:09ADOLPH:Yes. Q:And all these newsreels were very much in competition with one another, yes?&nb[…]
[…]ur parents and did they have any connection with the film business.Alan Lawson: Well my father was the director of publicity for I think at that time Universal Films and he'd been working in the film business since 1917. My mother before the family came on the scene had been a concert singer, she wa[…]
