[…]he precision necessary for a pair of stereoscopic images. We had to do quite a bit of optical correction, which was done in the Optical Department at Denham Laboratories, to get the images in perfect alignment where they’d slipped out. And so that camera had to be rebuilt on a more precise basis, wh[…]
[…] were correct and necessary.Yes.And meaningful. Despite all these advantages they still could not beat the big time boys.No.Which was basically Rank, Denham and Technicolor.Yes.So they began to wilt shall we say.Mm.And it was then that, mm, the, mm, Martinows [ph 458] eventually got tired of the who[…]
[…]p alone. And you don't have to meet her until you go to bed!" Ha ha ha! But he was a charming man. Anyway, he lost his company to Rank. He controlled Denham and all the big studios; Rank got them all.Arnold Schwartzman : Amazing. Did you know Michael Powell?Charles Bennett : Very well, yes. I never […]
[…] we did that had to fill in for ColdComfort Farm was called The House With The Green Shutters. Oh.And we did in fact go all the way to Denham to film A House With Green Shuttersand it was queried, because somebody said ‘Why did you have to go so far’? Well, it had to be in the co[…]
[…]Boxall was his go-between.Alan Lawson : What about Harold Boxall, then?Peter Birch : Very nice chap. I tried to leave Gaumont's at one time and go to Denham... and Boxall dissuaded me.Alan Lawson : Well its a good thing; you wouldn't have got any credits. Watkins got the credit.Peter Birch : Possibl[…]
[…]her one should tell. When I got into the cutting rooms I became friends with Lew Thornburn who was General Manager of Shepperton Studios, had been at Denham with Alex. And he told me lots of anecdotes about Alex.John Legard: When he first arrived?Teddy Darvas: The first film that was made […]
[…]ream to work on. Oh, yes, on the first day, I remember the mother and father and the little boy were billeted at this rather nice place "The Barn" on Denham Road, and they came in every morning by car and the press were the re. "Little Boy Discovered to Play Part" etc. etc. And I have never seen suc[…]
