Peter Handford

Peter Handford (21 March 1919 – 6 November 2007) was an English location sound recordist. He is considered a master and pioneer of this area of sound recording. He began work in 1936 with London Films at Denham as a trainee sound recordist. He honed his sound recording skills during the D-Day landings, where he served with the Army Film Unit of the British Expeditionary Force. His first screen credit was on Black Magic (1949) and in the same year he recorded Under Capricorn for Alfred Hitchcock. In 1972, Hitchcock sought him out to work on Frenzy. Handford was also known for his recordings of steam locomotives during the last days of steam railways in Britain from c. 1940s-1970s. Together with Kevin Daly, in 1969 he recorded and co-produced The Knotty, a musical documentary about the great days of the railways. He was the creator of the Transacord label (later Argo Transacord distributed through Argo).