[…]or I just in the I got the impression I was a little nap processing. It was a release print 916 mail. It rejoiced and then in the name of substantive film finish limited substandard definition. It is now film Magic and much more respectable but it was at the top end of Dean Street under OK. I had an[…]
[…]n 1920, May, in Rugby in Warwickshire. And my father kept a photographic chemist's shop. And so we had, uh, sold cameras, and I served customers with films and loaded the cameras. [laughter] I was the boy for all the people who'd bought expensive cameras and then had to get a shop assistant to load […]
[…]amera mechanics were stuck in a time mold. As far as engineering was concerned, their engineering base was in the early 1900s when they moved over to film, they divorced themselves from general engineering, and they stayed with films so, so they were doing things in the 1950sUnknown Speaker 4:[…]
[…];Ostend and across in the vote. And um anyhow uh. When the war started the film industry of course virtually came to a standstill shooting at Cannon. I think&nb[…]
[…] 2008 02:43 PM BIOGRAPHY: E. M. Smedley Aston entered the film industry as a runner at British International Pictures in […]
Side 1 Ralph 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 […]
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[…]
[…]there for I suppose it was about 15 years or so and then we moved nearer London to Great Missenden, and it was from Great Missenden that I started in films. I should say that when I left school in 1929 I went into the advertising industry and I was going to be with Mather and Crowther...Roy Fowler:&[…]
[…]Did you receive any specialised training - technical college, poly?Tubby Englander: No, no way, no.Arthur Graham: What made you decide to go into the film industry?Tubby Englander: The fact that the year was 1931 and I had to get a job. I'd just left school and I wasn't going to go back to school ag[…]
[…] they obviously do you!" [Laughs.] She said, "We're making a film called Fire Over England at Denham Studios. Would you […]