Chocolate chicks!

[andy250]

before you know it you'll be dj'ing with me and sploshman, Bill and the wheels of steel.

Can see Bill asking sploshman so how does this work???

regards


Andy

[Lizzie_Claymore]

Astonishing - I've done the odd voiceover/ad job too. Is there a theme developing amongst sploshers? Old buses/trains/comedy/advertising voiceovers etc.

I've always loved accent and dialect, though can't necessarily do too much with them but I specialise in the 1950s Leslie Mitchell and 1960s Bob Danvers-Walker newsreel commentary voiceover style for comic effect (which is what got me one of the jobs).

[BillShipton]

Ah Bob Danvers-Walker...bet that name has never cropped up at UMD!

Perhaps older members will recall he also used to describe the prizes on Take Your Pick (the Michael Miles original, not the later Des O Connor one).

I have just started collecting the DVDs of Look at Life, the 10 minute films made by Rank in the 60s to show in cinemas during intermissions etc. As well as civil and military aviation, there are some fab films about "Swinging London" all with a marvellously arch commentary.

Talking of posh voice-overs, the man who does some of those train videos (is it John Huntley?), he has a fabulous 1950s newsreel voice.

[Sploshman]

Would love to DJ at a mud wrestling nite and then join in the fun afterwards.

Ah one can dream .

[Spinynorman and Frilly]

Ah Bob Danvers-Walker...bet that name has never cropped up at UMD!

Perhaps older members will recall he also used to describe the prizes on Take Your Pick (the Michael Miles original, not the later Des O Connor one).

Was he also the bloke who did the yes/no interlude?

[andy250]

Good idea that, sploshman, would go down a storm with the crowd that for certain.

regards

Andy

[Lizzie_Claymore]

Was he also the bloke who did the yes/no interlude?

Not quite. Bob Danvers-Walker did the announcing but Michael Miles was the presenter with Alec Dane banging the gong during the Yes/No Interlude.

I always thought it was interesting to hear the difference between the deep and mellow 1950s tones of Leslie Mitchell (harking back to the WW2 days of John Snagge) and the relatively high-pitched nasal character of Bob D-W. He really characterised the 1960s era for me and I can just hear him banging on about things like "...the new miracle for the British Housewife ... yes, it's new drip-dry Bri-Nylon..." etc.

I have just started collecting the DVDs of Look at Life, the 10 minute films made by Rank in the 60s to show in cinemas during intermissions etc. As well as civil and military aviation, there are some fab films about "Swinging London" all with a marvellously arch commentary.

Ooooh! Where do you get those? I am slowly gathering a collection of the production music of the type often used in the Pathe and Movietone cinemagazines but I didn't realise you could get them as DVDs.

Talking of posh voice-overs, the man who does some of those train videos (is it John Huntley?), he has a fabulous 1950s newsreel voice.

Yes, John Huntley was a film historian who only died about 3 years ago. He would usually tour the country annually to show transport films of yesteryear and I saw some fascinating rushes and little-known films that he showed. His work lives on in the form of the Huntley Film Archive. He was another who had a wonderful 'cut glass' announcing voice and had a fascinating life. (Go to the site and select 'Company Profile' then the drop down box to 'John Huntley'.)

Incidentally, I take it you know that the wonderful British Transport Film archive is gradually being released on DVD (at last!!) by the British Film Institute? Vol 4 will be released at the end of November. You can also download "Let's Go to Birmingham" from the BFI website, along with the intro from the multi-award-winning non-transport "Between the Tides" that they made. Marvellous stuff.

[Sploshman]

Good idea that, sploshman, would go down a storm with the crowd that for certain.

regards

Andy

You know that .