http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2009/03/18/tje/ Synthesizer and electronic music news, synth and music software reviews and more! Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:47:13 -0500 hourly 1 http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2009/03/18/tje/#comment-135558 Don Thomson Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:53:08 +0000 http://www.synthtopia.com/content/?p=12660#comment-135558 An interesting little film. I stated work aged 16, in the Works Laboratory EMI. in 1944. The laboratory was at the end of a long corridor from the press room, and the roller room where the shellac material was made, and all the raw materials were tested for quality in this lab. As this was wartime, The glass roof of the building had been blacked out, so no daylight got into any part of the factory. My recollection is of a vast dimly lit complex of rooms, with the black dust from the shellac material covering everything. The rest of the huge factory site was mainly given over to wartime production, the cabinet factory, originally producing the beautiful veneered cabinets for radiograms, now produced wings for the Dehavilland Mosquito aircraft, while all kinds of equipment for the armed forces was produced in other parts of the plant. An interesting little film. I stated work aged 16, in the Works Laboratory EMI. in 1944. The laboratory was at the end of a long corridor from the press room, and the roller room where the shellac material was made, and all the raw materials were tested for quality in this lab.
As this was wartime, The glass roof of the building had been blacked out, so no daylight got into any part of the factory. My recollection is of a vast dimly lit complex of rooms, with the black dust from the shellac material covering everything. The rest of the huge factory site was mainly given over to wartime production, the cabinet factory, originally producing the beautiful veneered cabinets for radiograms, now produced wings for the Dehavilland Mosquito aircraft, while all kinds of equipment for the armed forces was produced in other parts of the plant.

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