[…]wden, he was the principal man on the radar, he's now a lord: Dr Loins, he was a chemist and he left Independent Frame in due course and went to Rank Laboratories and became their chief man; there was Robert Holt and a whole number of people of very high academic scientific qualifications. The idea […]
Vernon Sewell (film director) 4/7/1903-21/6/2001 by admin — last modified Aug 12, 2008 02:08 PM BIOGRAPHY: Vernon Sewell began his […]
[…]on the phone to customers ringing in. I used to mainly deal with customer complaints, so if they had a particular… this would mainly be cameramen and laboratories so if they ran into a problem they’d ring in and say “We’ve got this problem” and send a sample in and we’d check to see whose fault it w[…]
[…]ou cut a wax, all you had to do was to throw that to a Phonograph Company and say, press up 100 but when it came to a film, you had to teach the film laboratories. First of all, you had to work out with Kodak, where you worked a lot with Eastman. The techniques for doing it all had to be done scient[…]
[…]ean, is the lapse?Derek Threadgall 1:32:32 Who asked me the question? Yes. We haven't touched on the other important aspect of editing is laboratories. And you've obviously been involved when you've been editing a film with the laboratories, at some point. Have you missed it at all? I mi[…]
[…]stills or?CL: Oh no, no, they were doing they were doing newsreels and feature films for processing/NA: yeah yeah.CL: I think they were the top labs, laboratories in England, in Europe.NA: It would’ve been at that time,CL: it was a very high standard. And erm, I was placed into the laboratory as a j[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 329[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2002-02-21 Interview Date: 1994-07-07Interviewer: Roy Fowler Interviewee: Vernon SewellTape 1, Side 1 Roy Fowler: I know Vernon, that you celebrated your 91st birthday on Monday last, so that makes your date[…]
[…]ence or the. ITV division, you were, in a sense, isolated from what was really happening and my memories, I'll have to pause who was the chair of the laboratories division and vice president for a long time. He was a van driver, rather pedestrian sort of guy, exactly. We worked very hard for the Uni[…]
