[…]irls and editors. And of course, very early on my hero became David Lean, because at that time he was doing Great Expectations. I’d been, I’d been to Denham a couple of visits, I’d got taken round the studios, and I had visited Brief Encounter and, Caesar and Cleopatra, the one with Claude Rains, an[…]
[…] said, "We're making a film called Fire Over England at Denham Studios. Would you like to come and watch it being […]
[…]ice, yes.DB: Anyway, that’s a coincidence.PM: He worked on The Thief of Baghdad, the Korda one.DB: Yes, yes!PM: He goes back a long way.DB: Yes, ‘cos Denham was closed by then, by your time in the business.PM: He was very much Vincent Korda’s Art Director, because he did An Inspector Calls, The Holl[…]
[…]reakthrough for sound, and this would be about 1927-ish. And he built the Rialto up in Norwood, the Albany which was virtually next door, the State Sydenham and State Thornton Heath. And my father was in charge of equipment, putting equipment in, engaging the staff, usual Chief Engineer stuff. This […]
[…]e of middle of it. Got to mean I couldn't get to work. The whole thing was totaled, total. shambles. Start to finish. We then get into the opening of Denham ears. And Stapleton vs Stapleton dirty blood that joined this company with Mac sharp. Now, you know, Mac chopping? Linda Wood 33:24Y[…]
[…]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&[…]
[…] watch film.NA: with your brother presumably?CL: No. No. On my own.NA: Ok00.14.29CL: So my dream was film. And when I got back I had to get a job and Denham Studios, I wrote to them and told them my background and they said ‘yes by all means come in and work as an assistant.’ Which I did.NA: That’s […]
[…]e to develop my negatives according to the Kodak principle, which was ten minutes, in my automatic machines at Shepherd's Bush, whereas Humphries and Denham was six minutes. That's why I got much better gradation and I've got a letter here which I can give you, or show you, from Bernard Knowles was […]
[…] studio. When Gainsborough became part of Rank, Worker moved to Denham, working for Rank’s Production Facilities Department, which oversaw finances […]
