behp0152t-john-halas-transcript [This transcript was kindly checked by John Halas’s daughter]NB: John Halas and Bob Godfrey were hamming it up a bit and having a laugh whilst conducting the interview. There is some license for exaggeration. DS 2021. The copyright of this recording is veste[…]
[…]uld be dreary beyond belief. But I got hooked. And then I had a series of other jobs, designing and silk screen printing, and this and that. But when John advertised for an animator, I thought, "Ah, this is your lucky day." And I didn't mean just for me, I meant for John, because I knew there were o[…]
[…]job thenwith... oh gawd. I think they were called British... oh, here we are, I’ve probably writtenit out here. ’51... British Industrial Films. John Curtois [ph]. And they were makingactually filmstrips, but of course as I’d started off at art school I was sort of capable offilmstrips as well […]
HP0077 Richard Arnell – Transcript.RICHARD ARNELL ComposerInterviewed by John Shearman [JS], recorded on 15 February 1989 by Alan Lawson [AL] Copyright of the recording is vested in the ACTT History Project.SIDE 1, TAPE 1JS: Born?RA: September 15, 1917.JS: Whereabouts?RA: 537a Finchley Rd, Hamp[…]
[…]r sent me to an Aunt in Neath, an Aunt and Uncle. Actually the Uncle called and took me with him, and I'll always remember, he was a great man, Uncle Johnny - full of laughter. We got to - I think it's Glynneath or some place near Seven Sisters where he lived - er, Onllwyn, that's right, Onllwyn, a […]
[…]asia, and he was also involved in a lot of the development of different sound techniques for recording in British studios. He worked with people like John Cox and John Aldred. The interesting thing about my father was that he was an American citizen, and when the Germans invaded Poland, he felt terr[…]
