An hour in the Huntley archives.

Date:
2000
  • Audio

About this work

Description

Film historian John Huntley provides a guided tour of his film archive, containing 30-40,000 items,in his house in Islington. Huntley first collected film, and a small projector, at the age of ten, and later worked as a tea boy in the Denham studios under Alexander Korda, then in sound recording. He describes the technical innovations which changed film, and particularly the way sound was recorded, e.g. in tap dancing sequences, and in making the voice of Hamlet's ghost down a drainpipe. There are numerous recordings from 100 years of films,

Publication/Creation

London : BBC Radio 4, 2000.

Physical description

1 sound cassette (1 hour).

Notes

Broadcast on 10th February 2001

Creator/production credits

Produced by Rob Ketteridge
Presented by Prof. Steve Jones

Copyright note

BBC Radio

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