[…]on: What was the name of the company?Cyril Pennington-Richards: It was Industrial and General Film Laboratories, and another company called British Empire Films. We bought George Humphries' business for a hundred and sixty pounds and...Alan Lawson: That was the titling business?Cyril […]
[…] that keen. They thought my education was all rather wasted. During the course of business my father met Castleton Knight who was the head of Gaumont British News, quite a character, an extraordinary chap. He did a lot of extraordinary publicity stunts at a time when newsreels were in enormous compe[…]
[…] and said you take over the company. At the same time one morning he had telephoned Noel Coward and said to him he wanted to make a picture about the British navy, an you imagine the situation, an Italian in this country during the war telephoning Noel Coward, and Noel Coward intrigued by this man w[…]
[…]ell I'll go back and check with him because I think I'm screwing up and this is the head of production of Fox talking to me. I mean I just the humble British cameramen over there to make a film. And I find myself in this position but the they were so frightened of him. I went back to John and said t[…]
[…]tures or Universal Pictures. I should be on there, and the executive producer from America wrote an article for one of the trade magazines saying the British technicians had no verve, and all he wanted to do was break for tea which, as any technician of my time would know that's a load of rubbi[…]
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[…]cript has been produced automatically using Speechmatics.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of the content of this interview.However, the BEHP wants t[…]
