[…]irls and editors. And of course, very early on my hero became David Lean, because at that time he was doing Great Expectations. I’d been, I’d been to Denham a couple of visits, I’d got taken round the studios, and I had visited Brief Encounter and, Caesar and Cleopatra, the one with Claude Rains, an[…]
[…]ed vaults, picking up all their nitrate content and got a massive amount of film that way. The biggest coup was the Rank Film Laboratories storage at Denham, who had to get and unload all their nitrate film. They tried just to get rid of it, but I walked in and acquired it, acquired the lot, which w[…]
[…] The biggest coup was the Rank Film Laboratories storage at Denham, who had to get and unload all their nitrate […]
[…]uspicious person didn't trust them. He didn't like directors, and no, it's I had the unpleasant thing situation years later when I worked with him at Denham studios. But Brian Desmond Harris on the night of fire, and he didn't like at all. Brian, whose typical I had a great sense of humor, and he ha[…]
[…]home and I'd write all these letters to the studio. I must have written. 10 or 20 all the various duties I got to know who to write Bertie's e was at Denham although I never met her he was one I wrote to and Bill Haggis at Elstree I wrote too. I forget who was in charge of B and D the tim[…]
[…]f these long short ends, which we cut down and recanned into 400 foot lengths for an Arri mag. And we shot it. We dubbed at Anvil which by now was at Denham. Ken Scrivener gave us a super dub. They charged a rates for a documentary.John Legard: How long did it run?Rodney Giesler: 45 minutes, which w[…]
[…] it. We dubbed at Anvil which by now was at Denham. Ken Scrivener gave us a super dub. They charged […]
[…]member that Lord Louie used his influence and helped us obtain the unobtainable. And we built two thirds of a full size destroyer in the big stage at Denham. And the whole of this two thirds of this destroyer was were on hydraulic, rock rocking and rolling platforms. The whole thing was it was a fan[…]
[…]alright if it was a bad production, like, for example, Mother Riley, it was sandwiches or something like that. Anyway, I got the first time I went to Denham Studios was on a film called night without Dharma, which starred Marlene Dietrich ish, and Robert Donette. And was fascinating film about the r[…]
[…] then it was rampant. There was a classic case at Denham after the War. I made my first two or […]
