[…]nt of view - to organised rough cuts where the client came and met the producerand to organise the release of the publicity and hand them over to the distribution department at theend. Then I was Chief Production Officer and then when I married Helen I got her job which wassomething higher than that[…]
[…] the record it's true. Mick and Reg Baker decided not to prosecute but to cut their losses and just say good bye. But also there is the factor of the distribution set up in this country, because I remember that film which Harry Watt made in Australia, The Overlanders, and that went out on the Rank c[…]
[…]m they were right, if they didn't you had a magenta or green fringe around it and you then had to adjust the print on a rocker until you got the best distribution of error over the whole area. It was never absolutely perfect. You had to get it as right as you could get it. It was an awful business d[…]
[…]iter and director, but he was a Russian.Kay Mander: No, no, no. This was a big Russian in Wardour Street, and he set up this so-called production and distribution organisation.Sidney Cole: IPD or something?Kay Mander: And I can't get anybody who can remember him, I can't remember what his name was -[…]
[…]T History Project. The interview is with Jack Rockett at Glebelands on 22 August 1988, with Sid Cole.Sidney Cole: Jack, you spent your life in cinema distribution - how did you get into that originally?Jack Rockett: I saw an advert in the Daily Telegraph for office boy wanted.Sidney Cole: How old we[…]
[…] technical side, technical requirements of COI and my particular brief was all the work up to the up to the show, copy, state of a film, all the bulk distribution and the various other aspects were not in my hands, but all the getting of the image onto film, the troubleshooting advisory organization[…]
[…]man and a camera assistant and an assistant director, and there was also somebody doing the library for the Coal Board, which in fact of course was a distribution library of the films that had been made for the Coal Board but by outside people. And then it gradually grew, in fact it rapidly grew as […]
[…]o sell the film, the short to Fox, and they would pay me for it, which would make a profit. They would make a very nice profit out of it, too, on the distribution and all that kind of thing, because we always had to pay the distributors anyways, no matter whether we were winning, losing orRoy Fowler[…]
[…]of it, because she let off a blast the next Sunday. And then the other critics went to see it and it got a very good press here. And then it got some distribution after that. I don't think it made any money but it didn't cost any either.Stephen Peet: Did we ever get on record the title of it?Philip […]
[…]ints for British Lion, for oh what was his name, Smith.LH: Herbert Smith?WR: No Herbert was the younger brother, big brother[?] they had quite a good distribution company. So when we weren’t shooting the lab did release prints, and – another digression – a lot of waffle I know, we had three brothers[…]
