[…]Charles Cooper: Well, yes. Various problems were involved and I suppose also due to the high cost of money - with the Paris Pullman I'd had two other partners and they wanted to pull out and the cost of money was high, and of course a lot of cinemas were no longer viable financially. And this applie[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 110 [Copyright BECTU]Maurice Elvey (film director) 11/11/1887 – 28/8/1967 by admin — last modified Jul 28, 2008 04:49 PMTranscription Date: [? Pilot Project] - Interview Date: 1963-10-01 - Interviewer: Ralph Bond[…]
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