David "Dickie" Batchelor (7 March 1941 in England – 3 May 2005 in
Ipswich,
Suffolk
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) was an
English sound mixer.
He worked for the
BBC and
Anglia Television, before going freelance.
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worked closely with him for years. In the 1980s he settled for television commercials, and worked with
Rowan Atkinson
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on
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adverts.
His main cinema work was:
*''
Walker'' (1987) (sound)
*''
Return of the Jedi'' (1983) (boom operator)
*''
Dragonslayer
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'' (1981) (production sound assistant)
He was involved in the
radio adaptation of ''
Espedair Street'', the
Iain Banks novel.
When asked to take over as production mixer on
Alex Cox's ''Walker'', on location in Nicaragua, Batchelor was only told when collected from the airport that the film was being shot in a war zone. Batchelor said calmly that he would probably need some kind of hat.
Note: This is not the same Dave Batchelor who produced
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band or the
Oasis
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The location of oases has been of critical imp ...
song "
Slide Away", which appeared on their 1994 debut ''
Definitely Maybe''.
References
* Mathur, Paul. ''Take Me There: Oasis - The Story''. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 1996.
Notes
External links
*
Times obituary
1941 births
2005 deaths
Engineers from Ipswich
English audio engineers
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