E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…] know people say, "Oh that's ridiculous." But I mean it did actually happen.Roy Fowler: In the light of that story and knowing you were later at Denham, is it true there was a sign at Denham that said, "To be Hungarian is not enough"?E.M. Smedley-Aston: Um well there was a story...I did go[…]

Dallas Bower

[…]he came and sat with me by my side and that was the first OB from a London theatre that was ever done. And leading out of that we came to, we went to Denham and Pinewood and did six OBs from each unit working at those respective studios of that time.  That was very interesting.Alan Lawson&[…]

Leonard Harris

[…] Walker, and then Bob went to - he went to Denham I think, he went somewhere I know. And Gordon […]

Sarah Erulkar (de Normanville)

[…]n from my professor to Rotha and also to Korda. If I remember rightly, can I tell you his story about Korda, I went down to see Korda, I think it was Denham. RG: This was Alexander Korda SE: Alexander Korda, and I arrived on this train and we got out at the stop for the station. We all got out. They[…]

Leonard (Len) Harris

[…]South African he was, he was the other operator and Walker, Bob Walker.Alan Lawson: Yes.Leonard Harris: Bob Walker, and then Bob went to - he went to Denham I think, he went somewhere I know. And Gordon Lang who'd been focussing with the other chap I just mentioned, he took over, became the third op[…]

John Wiles

[…] was a bit of men of two worlds, which was directed by thermal Dickinson. And then the other thing was you also hard out occasionally, so sent off to Denham, which was quite quite a thing. In those days, I had to live in South London and I had to be at Denham and Harper state. Wartime was not that e[…]

Len Runkel

[…] 2:03:14  because of the monopoly, the number of people who could represent Technicolor as against the number of people who could represent Denham. So if we wanted something, we got it. I mean, you went to an annual general meeting or a laboratory committee or whatever, moved second throug[…]

Charles W. Smith

[…]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[…]

Jimmy Wright

[…]use all the boys had to leave. Then I went on to a prep school called Denham Lodge which was uh just on the border of oxygen Denham close to Arthur&nb[…]

Cyril Howard

[…]sp;                        at Denham studios, because Pinewood Studio, having opened in 1936 closed in 38, not because of  the war, so many people say that,&nbs[…]
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