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Harry Manley (HM)Laboratories (Colour Film Services)BECTU 383Interviewers: John Legard (JL) & Dave Robson (DR)Date: 10/06/19962 Tapes Side 100:00:00 – 00:18:08 Background and early life in Birkenhead; started at Birkenhead School in 1945 and left at sixteen; wanted a career as a customs off[…]

[…]the side of a roll of stock.. [Laughter][Laughter]On nitrate in those days. [Laughter]Yes.And the funny part about it is I’d never experienced a film fire until I got to Technicolor.[Laughter]Yes.That’s the strange part. But, mm, it was nothing for someone shout out ‘a bin’s alight’.[Laughter]1[…]

[…] Gunn; Dave Davies got to a stage where he was working with every print manager at every major distributor –United Artists, Columbia, Warner, General Film; because Technicolor was a secret process, nobody was allowed into the laboratory; one department could not go into another; he built up a rappor[…]