[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]of September 1993, to Boscastle. Joe to begin with, can you can you tell me when you were born? Yes, I'll go on to describe how you came to be in the film industry.Joe Mendoza  0:22   So I was born 921 in southeast London.event, what date 29th of January, when the query and my family […]
[…] sudden change and you didn’t have a choice. I think, correct me if I’m wrong, but I think there was only one other important laboratory and that was Denham laboratory at the time.  There was some smaller labs but they wouldn’t have normally been engaged in printing movies.PF: So, before t[…]
[…]ney was spent on the infrastructure. The laboratory would be well-decorated, things like aspects of the laboratory would be very good. When I went to Denham, for Ranks, there was many parts of the building that were quite derelict and you thought this was…it was quite a culture shock because I’d com[…]
[…]ery lucky. That was from May 1935 to October 1935, at which point Alex sacked us all - or at least all the lower grades - because they were moving to Denham. So, October 1935 I got myself a job at Fox-British, again in the publicity department, with a very very clever young man called Geoff Davis wh[…]
[…]I got off very lightly on that occasion. Later on when I left Shepperton. I was made redundant after 12 weeks, I did get some training when I went to Denham studios but I'm jumping ahead a bit. Nothing happened at Shepperton.Peter Musgrave: This was pretty short, 12 weeks at Shepperton, presumably o[…]
[…]rk. I was building concrete styes and digging the ground, gravel it was on gravel and at the end of the day my leg was killing me. And then I went to Denham Labs, and became a printer. And that opened my eyes. The standard of work in a laboratory – I’m sure it’s changed now but a dupe neg would come[…]
[…]aking his jacket off and he had a shirt which had been made out of a union Jack. This sort of extroverted character. Anyway we worked on that film at Denham. That was, it wasn't a happy studio to work in, I didn't like working there, not long before we started that film ACT had come to an agreement […]
