[…]just thinking more broadly, what were the wider industry attitudes to film preservation at this time?AM: Well, the film archives weren’t, in general, independent organisations. There was Rank film archives in the UK, so it was very much the distributors who owned all this property which had future v[…]
[…]d they wanted a couple of scenes altered slightly, and did course and was quite happy about me taking a couple of afternoons off, to go to work in an independent cutting room somewhere in Soho, just to tidy these two scenes up and the assistant I'd had on that production was still around an EQ just […]
[…] was splitting its production activities between Two Cities Films and Independent Producers. And Two Cities remained at Denham and the […]
[…]n after Wessex, what?Cyril Pennington-Richards: After Wessex I did a lot of freelancing, I then did a lot oftelevision.Alan Lawson: You did Independent Frame, when was that?Cyril Pennington-Richards: No I never did Independent Frame.Alan Lawson: You didn't?Cyril Pennington-Richar[…]
[…]m one to another one producer to another. Had I produced my own films I could have produced and directed films and made them on a more perhaps a more independent basis and taken more risks. But since I never had any financial ambitions, I mean business ambitions. I therefore, directed only and I was[…]
[…]mly to, to that experience.Unknown Speaker 6:12 Out of that, well, not out of that came another step away to Channel Four. This was a big independent production, I said big because of the scope and scale of it. There was a musical on in Russia in Moscow, called Juno and a vos. It was ext[…]
[…]at. That took us, I suppose, to early '46 and by this time the Rank Organisation was splitting its production activities between Two Cities Films and Independent Producers. And Two Cities remained at Denham and the Independent Producers, which were the Archers - Mickey Powell and so on; Cineguild - […]
[…]well: Yes, really.Roy Fowler: So what happened to you then? British National is closing...Vernon Sewell: Well pretty well, I became an independent producer I think. I went to two young people starting off called Cohen and Levy. Nat Cohen and Stuart Levy and they - well they let me do […]
[…]ly go through the big, the bigger labs, to do something because it might start out as not a major feature through the studios, it might be more of an independent, and they’ll start doing it and they’ll cost in achieving what they want to achieve without having a massive spend on the original process[…]
[…] ‘51, September/October ‘51. SIDE 2 , TAPE 1AG: Have you ever worked on any specialised processes?DB: I can't think of any, when you say, no.AG: Independent Frame or anything?DB: No. I have had the usual quota of having to order matte shots andthings like that which was all part of the routine […]
