[…]n, or whatever it was called, broke the monopoly between Kodak and technical I didn't they,Unknown Speaker  1:50:31  well now, 20th Century Fox, yeah, 20Unknown Speaker  1:50:35  court, yeah. AndUnknown Speaker  1:50:39  although we know we had, you see, we had a three […]
[…]! [AL laughs] But of course, the main thing which was the death knell of that magnetic track at that time, and we were going four-track, that was the Fox Cinemascope format - was the cost of striping and recording on the track. That was another operation that had to be done and it had to be paid for[…]
[…]o hard in trying to get his clients more money and probably scared a lot of people off.Roy Fowler: I think that's probably true. He was a director at Fox British before he became an agent, he came over here to work as a director and the stories of him there are that he was a very offensive unpleasan[…]
[…]ich had ended. I heard all that...Roy Fowler : The Motion Picture Trust - you know about that do you?Ella Mallett : Ooh yes, I of course! Laemmle and Fox...Roy Fowler : Right. Did you follow that at the time or is that something you've read about since?Ella Mallett : Please?Roy Fowler : I say, did y[…]
[…]why not?Tom Peacock: So I would go. Now when I start reminiscing I get mixed up with Shepperton, Pinewood, Denham, Riverside Studio, Gaumont-British, Fox in Wembley, all the studios that I worked in you see. When they were busy I would nip in - MGM, and all that you see. But there was 'Cleopatra'...[…]
[…] business for aSpeaker 1  46:41  long time. By that time, Roy, you see, I had, I, I left at the end of 46 or beginning of 47 to join Sidney Fox. So I didn't, but yes, the other two names was Peter Brook, and we're going toRoy Fowler  47:03  have to stop getting out at.Roy Fowler […]
[…]on in studios, and watching studio lighting and all that sort of thing. And at that time, I found that I couldn't get directly in. I went out also to Fox Studios at Wembley, when, again, he was directing out there, again, making things like the Arsenal murder mystery. I was one of them. I don't reme[…]
[…]now how I found out there was something at Denham, but they mistook me for another Ryder, Sid Ryder who is still around I think, something to do with Fox?LH: Dunno.WR: Yeah, on the projection side. And I worked there with CC Stevens. I couldn’t believe it, because at Beaconsfield we often did forty […]
[…]ard and very nice experience. The Guinea Pig wasalright. Then we come to Britannia Mews. Britannia Mews was an Americanfilm made by Twentieth Century Fox, directed by Jean Negulesco. And thiswas a very hair raising experience in several ways, psychologically andphysically. It was my first experience[…]
