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[…] life too seriously. But the people in the office, the emi- nence grise was Bob Dearing. It was awkward. I […]

[…] back I think, although the British Kinematograph Society was behind it, it was all theory stuff like, a lot of useful stuff mind you. Photographic chemistry, design, electrical engineering and all sorts of things, and we did tinker a bit with 9.5mm and I think we had an old Newman Sinclair. But tha[…]

[…] because when it was taken over by Canon, then Thorn- EMI, yes. And of course every time it's taken over, […]

[…]r, he’s dead, a fella called John Morris was an editor and a fella called Bill Rowe was an editor. Now that is not Bill Rowe who (no, no)became er an eminent sound supervisor at Elstree. And the fellow in charge of the library’s name was John O’Kelly and he then went with the library when it moved t[…]

[…]p;         But again, going back to your co-operation with Tony Lumpkin, were you in his early work at ABC or EMI as it was by then with the development of stereo optical, now known as the Dolby stereo.A          No[…]

[…]e but you couldn't always do it as you know.BA: And the editor.BE: The editor was Michael Chorton and he was a very, as a - matter of fact he always reminded me, I don't know if you knew him at all, but he always reminded me of somebody 1ike Jonathan Miller, he was that type of person, extremely cle[…]

[…]s the boss.VG: No, I never thought anything about him, he was just the guy who pushed the thing at me. I used to talk to him about it in later days, remind him.RF: He was part of Maxwell's Scottish mafia was he not?VG: That's right, and Vaughen Dean was, later on one picture of mine, I can't remembe[…]

[…]nbsp;Phil Samuels was the manager, a bit more than the manager, and Croydon was this grey eminence behindhim.What sort of money were you getting at this time?Seven pounds a week. As a starteranyw[…]

[…] you mean somebody, [Laurence] Olivier, playing a Russian?WR: Yes.LH: Something about a Russian propellor design I seem to remember-RF: [Interjects] Demi Paradise.LH: You remember that do you?RF: Yes, about the Russians.LH: You remember the schemozzle I mean?RF: No, no.LH: About Bert Bachelor?WR: We[…]

[…]how to impress people like, the famous man who died recently, Orson Welles.Wyn Ryder: They were all done at Denham?Reggie Beck: No Elstree, EMIp.7Wyn Ryder: Did you have a favourite studio?Reggie Beck: Denham.Wyn Ryder: Elstree worst of all?Reggie Beck: No Walton on Tha[…]