[…]er seeing like a chart of, kind of, duplication stages of a film and they looked at the gamma, they develop fine grains and dupe negatives from every laboratory, because at that point pretty much every laboratory… every studio had its own in-house laboratory for black-and-white film, each studio had[…]
[…]ld warrant, if we could make those sales we would get enough back to pay off all the debts, because there were enormous debts. You know, transferring laboratory, 9 invoices for laboratory work, sound work, erm, there was overtime to pay, I mean there was a lot of bills. In fact I can remem[…]
[…]d Paul Rotha, he, believe it or not, told me to go and learn how to pack films. So I said "Pack films?" So he said "yes, go into a library, or into a laboratory and learn how to handle film. And then you can think about going, becoming a film technician" which is the most ridiculous advice I think t[…]
[…]ents were important to the company; Bernard Happe was a consultant for CFS; on the video side Bill Wood consulted with CFS; they had 80 people at the laboratory on a three-shift system 24 hours a day; tape to film had a staff of 10; CFS Equipment Ltd had a staff of 3; a lot of Perivale staff came fr[…]
[…]ng.Yes.He went in the Army.Yes.[Pause] So, mm...So, so you had a position there where you were management, the Personnel Manager?Mm.Mm, the, the, the Laboratory was doing well?Yes.Mm, Marshall Cushman was the manager?Yes.HARRY COURCHA 35When did that all break down and why did it break down?He’d bec[…]
[…] and shoot it, direct it, photograph it, edit it, cut the negative, and sometimes I'd even have to help process it! Because they were taken back to a laboratory in Brussels, who were very short of staff because some had been taken away by the Germans or something as far as I could - and they weren't[…]
[…]hen there was all the post-production afterwards going through the cutting rooms the laboratory work titles recording commentary dubbing negative cutting funds and print all t[…]
