Paul Collard

[…]ere three or four at that time. We were in competition. There was Technicolor who had existed for a long time, there was Rank laboratories, there was Humphries who were in Whitfield Street in Central London, there was Kays and a smaller one called Filmatic who did 16mm. There was Studio Film Labs wh[…]

John Frame

[…] Cameraman, Film Floor Manager, Film Editor, which I loved! Loved taking the Arri[flex 16mm camera] out in the morning, sending out the stock over to Humphries in the afternoon; getting it processed; getting a cut and copy; copy back; next day put it in! It was lovely! I loved that! I was alright wi[…]

Jim Peters

[…] and white film was a lot quicker than colour film but when Scottish Television went into colour film, laboratories, film laboratories were opened by Humphries in Balmore in Glasgow, north of Glasgow, which is about on a good, when there's no traffic it's a good ten minutes, fifteen minutes away fro[…]

Brian Marshall

[…]studio, and I was offered a job there as the as a sound trainee. So what its way in and I went there, and it was run by a very clever man called Eric Humphries, who was a electrical engineer Yeah, and he had developed his own sound recording system, which, in those days, everything was shot on optic[…]

John Turner

[…]er: Gaumont News, yes. And there I was, the chief 'humper' in those days, humping gear for various cameramen. The first job I went out was with Jimmy Humphries who was a very pleasant man but we went to the zoo to film an okapi which had just come over here, it was some weird animal, a bit like a ze[…]

Michael Aldridge

[…]every couple of months. And although they were union meetings, they were quite interesting because you could talk to the other ... I mean people from Humphries and Kays and Technicolor were there as well. And you got to know quite a lot about the other laboratories as well. And there was a  tec[…]
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