[…] the lovely part of it was that all the film came back to Beaconsfield [HANDWRITTEN ADDITION] ‘studios’ after it had been to the labs, I think it was Denham Labs, I'm not sure, when it had been to the labs and Commander HuntBA: He later became Sir John Hunt.BE: And Sir Edmund Hilary and Tensin, sher[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] heard that Technicolor was coming in to make Wings of the Morning but only one film but they were bringing practically everyone with them. I went to Denham with a 10t of cheek and no experience and asked to see a man named George Kay, head of the camera department in Hollywood, who set the thing up[…]
[…] The biggest coup was the Rank Film Laboratories storage at Denham, who had to get and unload all their nitrate […]
[…] know, around that era, you know, the FrenchAlan Lawson 21:09 Correct. Correct.Gerry Anstiss 21:11 No. Go get my MA he was at Denham. Yeah, he was also he was. But yeah, George Pernod?. I mean, he was also with with, with the group down at Shepperton and was with Korda and wh[…]
[…]er having everything I ever wanted in an office with secretaries, sergeants at the doors, cars and so on, I found myself with nothing. I drove out of Denham Studios with a little Morris and I said to myself what am I going to do with myself now, I felt very alone. I looked around and what I said to […]
[…]53 including the studio. Oh, yes, yeah. Do you remember Bill Goldston? Yes.Speaker 1 45:58 And then he went to ranks. He decided at Denham, I knew Bill gorge them very well. But I mean, he I'm trying to give you some idea the cost then as what it was. Then, if you had the labs, lab[…]
[…]continued until when?Reg Sutton: I left the newsreels in 1960 and it was still going then but not for long I don't think. By then they'd moved out to Denham. Their library was and still is quite popular, but it's packed up entirely now. Movietone were the last newsreel, as such, prior to that they'd[…]
[…]ld have thought with Asquith it would have been a real ...Reggie Beck: I never got close to Asquith.Wyn Ryder: I was working next to you in Denham Labs when you were working on Henry V, you must have lots of stories about that with Gordon Hales helping you.Reggie Beck: I thought […]
