[…] 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[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]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[…]
[…] 1937 -1986 . Worked in order at: Sound City (Shepperton), Denham, Pinewood, Army Film Unit, Crown Film Unit, MGM -Borehamewood, […]
[…]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[…]
[…]e was somewhere in Lambeth and more or less, it was sort of understood if something else came up in the feature line. I could take it. Then I went to Denham on Disney's Robin Hood, which was directed by Ken Alec and edited by Gordon Pilkington.Alan Legard 44:52 Oh yes, there'sRicha[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]ne up there and another up there.ROY FOWLER: It was Tommy Bentley probably.HARRY MILLER: Tommy Bentley, Yes. Tommy Bentley I remember more from Denham. Young Woodley, one of his. But Hitch, he was a famous character he had a property man named Harry something and he used to always get h[…]
[…]hink at that time he was fairly short of funds and they lived in a modest way in Gerrards Cross and I think he was only too glad to be called back to Denham studios to do this small ...Jonathan Balcon 16:28 Well that's fascinating because there were great problems between Rains and Pasca[…]
[…]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[…]
