[…]na and Japan with the intrepid explorer cameraman giving his own commentary up on the stage without a microphone. I can remember going to see another documentary about a lion called Zimba. The first half was silent and the second half had Western Electric sound and the projectionist was sitting in t[…]
[…] Ralph Bond, and there were a lot of well-known people there, oh, Cavalcanti, Harry Watt, Arthur Coldstream, many others who became well-known in the documentary field. So I was assistant on sound. The GPO had just started using sound and we had a primitive Visatone outfit which was all fitted into […]
[…]t. I always felt he let it all go on because he knew he wouldn’t be using that bit, he’d be using another bit and so on. ‘Cos that started as a small documentary as a recruiting film for the Army, and it was so successful that Carol persuaded the Army to let him go or whatever, and they made a featu[…]
