[Side 1] [OI] The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Daphne Ancell, honorary member of ACTT, ACTT activist, one time Chairman of the Technicolor Shop. Interviewer Alf Cooper. Recorded on the eleventh of April 1989 at her home in Shepperton. Side 0ne.[OI] Daphne when a[…]
[…]here we would work, how we would get our film processed. So there were discussions with everybody involved, trips down to Johannesburg to talk to the laboratory people to set things up, and so on the busy time, and of course, all as much as possible must be done before the arrival of Dennis Brown to[…]
[…]useful. Q:We’re back in London. What did you do when you got back to London, in ’22? 00:18:53ADOLPH:Well, I work in the, in the, in the laboratory as, as second manager, assistant manager. Q:Where was the laboratory? 00:19:10ADOLPH:Well, in London. Q:But whereabout[…]
[…]at the end of the day my leg was killing me. And then I went to Denham Labs, and became a printer. And that opened my eyes. The standard of work in a laboratory – I’m sure it’s changed now but a dupe neg would come over from America, with most of the light changes corrected but not hugely anyway; yo[…]
[…]week; Gaumont was a big glass studio in those days; he visited the studio to ask for a job, in photography, and was told to start the next day in the laboratory working for Harvey Harrison; after a year, Harvey took over as cameraman in the studios so FY was left in charge of the laboratory; FY talk[…]
[…] the debts, because there were enormous debts. You know, transferring laboratory, 10 invoices fo r laboratory work, sound work, erm, […]
[…] one was in Cairo. They say go to an Egyptian laboratory. I go to England. GYPTIAN laboratory and the man […]
[…]ery money. Without that we'd have, these people would have lost their jobs completely.MW: And the laboratories: was this Henderson's or another laboratory?AF: No, no - they are at Berkhamsted. There was one and there still is one..MW: Okay. Very good. And there should be, too!And so at some po[…]
