[…]s and it was standard practice so low contrast transmission prints… so they’d order one up from Ranks or wherever, Deluxe or whoever was handling the distribution at the time. It would be a standard request in that sense.PF: Would Ranks, or Deluxe, or whoever it was at the time, would they be workin[…]
Tessa Idlewine (TI) Film Preservationist (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science) Interviewers: Paul Frith (PF) & Keith Johnston (KJ) Date 08/02/2019 Conduct via SkypeLength 00:35:23 PF: OK Tessa so if you could tell me a little bit about your role at the Academy.TI:[…]
[…]nd I were there and we had to get this monorail so… in those days it was the Yellow Pages and there was a place in West Drayton, Monorail, did cement distribution around building sites. They came in, they built the monorail for us. Ken then did the kind of little…. but it all ran. And while they wer[…]
[…]e.PF: Well, it’s those additional generations, isn’t it, from the… when you are making those show prints which toured London compared to the national distribution prints. We’ve heard from other interviewees that there was a difference between those.PS: Yes, a big difference. The contrast would incre[…]
[…]’ve actually signed off on the grading. I mean, even Michael Collins I didn’t do the final grade of that on the DVD, on the blu-ray. I think that the distribution companies think they know best and they also think it’s going to cost money and cause delays. Well it doesn’t cost money and it doesn’t c[…]
Martin Spence 0:00 Okay, this is a British Entertainment History Project interview with Penny Woolcock. It's the 24th of April 2019. We're at Penny's home in north London.Camera's being operated by Nick Gilbey. Interviewer is Martin Spence. And the interview is copyright of the British E[…]
BEHP 0721T Norman J Warren TranscriptBritish Entertainment History Project – Interview No. 721 Thursday 5th April 2018INTERVIEWEE – NORMAN J. WARREN, DIRECTOR INTERVIEWER – MARTIN SHEFFIELDTranscriber – Linda Hall-ShawMARTIN SHEFFIELD: Over to you No[…]
[…] been responsible for green-lighting it. She didn't know it. They scheduled it 11 o'clock on BBC Two on Oscar night. No one saw it. It got bought for distribution in America. Yeah. But once they bought it, they didn't know what to do with it. So got nice reviews, never got repeated on BBC. And do yo[…]
