HP0103 Roy Ward Baker-Transcript

[…] I donÔÇÖt remember tea breaks. It was just that the general pace was very leisurely. A director like Bill Bodeen […]

Brian Shemmings

[…]sp;moved up through the the the management the lower management ranks he got to general manager with Bob Dibley was probably was the M.D. after more Bob I mean&[…]

Erwin Hillier

[…]o call them salpois, not if you understand German, which means pig passions because of their behavior. See, Germans are very abrupt, as you know, and generally tough, very efficient. And the people in Strasbourg, as is Lorena, moreRoy Fowler  2:56  casual, and the Viennese do theSpeaker 1 […]

Len Runkel

[…] 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  4:08  that nobody else would drea[…]

Roy Lockett

[…] what it was I was the kind of research officer as well. Now there were a lot of other things happening [Pause] in and around industry and society in general then. There were things like equal opportunities for example, mm, which the union hadn’tROY LOCKETT 9really committed to in any significa[…]

Yvonne Littlewood

[…]of course, she had a big film career in the ‘50s with that strange Rank Organisation scene. And I mean the first thing she did was Medal for the General when she was about six years old. So I did this whole big movie, scrapbook almost, which was interesting, and other things besides. Anywa[…]

Pamela Mann-Francis (nee Mann)

[…]s, John, I think, one was called John McFadden, and one was called Paddy Fleming. And they were film starlet escorts. And I met this guy, and through general chatting, he suddenly phoned me one day and said there was a job going at Imperial House Regent Street, which was the Rank head office, or one[…]

Francis Searle

[…]em. No, they were, no, they hadn't. But mother's influence was, it was, always, matters are a calming one,Roy Fowler  11:45  but it was the general one, and not specific in any sense of the performing arts. So you were, you were about to see grammar school, until when? What age?Unknown Spe[…]
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