[…] Rank snapped up Alexander Korda’s brand-new but heavily-mortgaged studios at Denham; and in 1941 it acquired Gaumont-British and Gainsborough. In […]
[…]0092 DV Tapes (Video) Tape 100:00:00 – 00:08:20 PB shows his membership card for BECTU to the camera; KW introduces PB, LZ and CF; PB started at Denham in 1937 as an office boy; moved into dispatch; joined the Territorials before the war when he was called up; left the army in 1943; wanted to w[…]
[…]orked in cinemas for 8 years (moving to Lido, Golders Green); he put his name on the books to be transferred to the production side; he then moved to Denham.00:06:10 – 00:13:47 As a projectionist, programmes would run Monday to Saturday and then an old film would play on Sunday; the Sunday prints we[…]
[…]put in to their own specifications; CFS were unique until Universal came a long much later; they handled a lot of 16mm neg made from a 35mm original; Denham went into 16mm but Technicolor didn’t for many years; CFS processed all of Technicolor’s 16mm material until the early-80s; when Technicolor wa[…]