Colin Flight (CF) Laboratories (Kodak and Rank/Deluxe) Interviewers: Paul Frith (PF) & Carolyn Rickards (CR) Date: 25/01/2018 Total Length: 02:02:49 CR: Thank you Colin for inviting us to your home to do this interview today. We’re very, very pleased to be here. I’m just[…]
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[…]
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[…] general counsel, I never figured out well,Unknown Speaker 59:22 I was upset about. You got to remember, in those days, in those days the laboratories were second class citizens, and they remember, I know that I was always trying to and when I ultimately became chairman of the branch, if[…]
[…]for finding the colours we could not find in the laboratory at the time.” So what it was really, it was an overall failure of the British Technicolor laboratories to do the work properly really. They just failed to find the colours that the directors of the film and the cameraman were trying to achi[…]
[…] ally, it was an overall failure of the British Technicolor laboratories to do the work properly really. They just failed […]
[…]at I wanted to broaden my technical knowledge, and so I managed, due to a fairly good scientific background at school, to get into the research local laboratories at Codex, then at Harrow Wilson, and got in. And was very lucky in that I got a very good grounding in sensitometry and the general photo[…]
[…] got a job as head of sound at Rank Film Laboratories. In 1980 he became involv ed with the British […]
