[…] I remember at one time Leon Gaumont came over from France to visit the studio. But I don't know if he was a producer or what, or whether it was just distribution - it may well have been.John Taylor: I think Gaumont in France would be producers and distributors.Margaret Thomson: I think so. And they[…]
[…]or two, it didn't matter which, and you got from a shilling copy you got 5d and from a 2 shilling copy you got 1/5d, because they used to take 7d for distribution, and whatever, whatever, whatever. If you sold 200,000 copies, it wasn't bad loot. And if you got into the half million which a lot of th[…]
[…]t matter actresses but when good ones Yeah.Unknown Speaker 30:00 But because it did run into many difficulties if we weren't in with rank distribution, we still weren't getting the best end of the deal. And that was one of the problems.Unknown Speaker 30:18 overlanders came o[…]
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Cyril Pennington-Richards (cameraman and director) 17/12/1911 - 2/1/2005by admin — last modified Aug 12, 2008 12:43 PMBECTU History Project - Interview No. 122[Copyright BECTU] Transcription Date: 2003-08-13Interview Date: 1990-01-09Interviewer: Alan Lawson and Colin Moffat Inter[…]
Side 1Ralph Bond 0:00 This is a tape recording with three ACTT members who have spent all or most of their working life in film laboratories. We have Bert Craik, Sam Williams, and Alf Cooper. And we're going to discuss the many, many changes that have taken place both in technical condit[…]
[…]cial films in those days on nitrate base (?) were inflammable, that is to say... [pause in tape] ...so to be practical at all, for general commercial distribution, newsreels were excepted. But while you were generally free in the progressive films, if you didn't show them in licensed halls, and didn[…]
[…]hange of importance to the industry - using the word industry in its broad sense - is, of course, the entire revision and alteration of the system of distribution. You see, in the early days - in fact I think one could say that right up to the... this last war - you made a film and there were very f[…]
Interview with Marion GriersonInterviewer: Margaret Thompson MT: This is Margaret Thompson interviewing Marion Grierson; documentary film director, editor reporter, literary editor and writer.these were the professions that she followed in the early years of documentary filmmaking. She later we[…]
[…]pose, came from Mary Field's work on natural history. Her films were pioneer films in that line. But they were for the theatres, they were theatrical distribution. But allied to GBI was, were, a couple of very specialist cameramen. One was a man called Oliver Pike, who... there were two bird special[…]
