Olympic Studios Look at Life 1966

'Pathe Pic' recording of Olympic Studios first recording session 1966 starts about 04.40.
There is some interesting detail here, The man at the Ampex 4 track is Dick Swettenham, co-director and founder member of Olympic. He and I designed all the desks at Olympic together, then later marketed as Helios when Dick moved to his own company with Chris Blackwell and Glynn Johns being financially involved (Correct me if I am wrong) The Deck of this machine is in my store. Frank Owen is the assistant, later to run Island Studios for Blackwell. The desk has 24 inputs and contains the modules I have here in my studio. The C12a that Christine LeGrand is singing into is in my mic collection.

Keith Grant 1 02 2009

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[chanctonbury63]

I washed dishes @ Butlins Bognor once as a student. You dont get much lower than that!!

[onceaboy1947]

@tenterden16 Hi, my name's David, too. I worked at cinemas in Stoke-on-Trent, so you probably wouldn't know them. When I started in the trade, there were still 25 cinemas here, but they've all gone now, to be replaced by an out of town and completely soul less Odeon multiplex, which looks like a glorified industrial shed. I, too, worked on the single screen; two projector set up cinemas. I could never have worked at a multiplex, it would have done my head in.

[tenterden16]

@onceaboy1947 Hello. It's nice to hear from a fellow projectionist. I had great joy working in a single screen cinema. It lent itself to presentation, a far cry fron the soulless multiplex. What cinemas did you work for ? Dave.

[onceaboy1947]

What is the CinemaScope screen doing in the background of the Olympic studios scenes? Were the studios also used to record film music scores?

[onceaboy1947]

@tenterden16 I was a cinema projectionist in the 1960s as well (1961 to 1981) and have fond memories of the weekly Look at Life and Pathe Pictorial shorts, which were only shown once. They were given numbers (see the censor's certificate on the beginning of this one) to ensure we never booked the same one twice. And yes, I remember showing the ones with the top hatted girl sitting on the big model cockerel as well. I don't suppose they show anything like this these days at the multiplexes.

[spacemanGoldie]

was the vocal recording used on the original Thomas Crown affair with Steve McQueen?

[tenterden16]

What a blast from the past. I remember Pathe Pictorial very well during the 60s. I used to be a cinema projectionist from the mid 60s at the Embassy Tenterden in Kent. Can anyone remember the Pathe Pictorial that pre dated this version ? A woman in top hat and tails posing on top of a giant cockerel. She tipped her hat as the whole thing revolved.

[schoop]

and such well dressed engineers - nice ties!

[Mmmmmmmm20]

Come on Keith, put up the film of the last session before the refit in the late 80's(?). Nigel Warren-Greens merry band of nutters I believe!...Big love, Steve Pearce. X

[randomnotegenerator]

Wonderful to see and hear the original Swingles, and a very young and handsome Keith Grant engineering! I've heard it a million times, but I never knew the recording was made in London until now. Brilliant!